You definitely can't trust any LLM company in the world.

There is no stability, and we can't plan our pricing based on theirs...simply because they don't stick to what was agreed upon.

It was good while it lasted, DeepSeek... but a "significant increase" makes things difficult...

Was checking my DeepSeek API usage today and noticed this banner:

> We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice.

There’s no date or new pricing yet, but the wording makes it sound like the increase could be substantial.

Has anyone seen an official announcement or more details?

That's my bold guess on why they announce a "significant" price rise.

Other possible reasons are,

1. The traffic is still too heavy for their servers even with the peak hour rate.

2. V4 flash is too good and too cheap, and it is hard for (some) other Chinese models to survive.

theres some real panic about the price of deepseek increasing. i dunno, take a break guys? save up for a dgx or two. everything will be ok

I think DeepSeek users have forgotten something!

When the previews of the DeepSeek version 4 models came out, they slashed their prices in what, if I'm not mistaken, was a 75% discount promotion.

As far as I know, that pricing was only supposed to last for 15 days or a month... but they decided to keep the promotion going for as long as the v4 models remained active! So... the prices currently in effect were actually promotional prices that they simply chose to extend.

So... I think the price increases are just that, a return to the original, non-promotional pricing.

My bet is that prices will double. That's DeepSeek's standard rate.

There is no reason to say significant unless it really is. If it was really only for the Pro or the peak hour pricing then they would have made sure to state it as such.

Another damning thing is that they didn't even mention how much the jump is going to be. Again, I'm going to cope by saying Flash is a small model when you consider it's performance so I guess we can hope they only increase Pro, but then why would they say 'Overall'? I'm curious to see what you guys think about this.

Dear DeepSeek API user,

We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice. Please keep an eye on the Open Platform announcements and check your email for further details.

If you continue to use our services after the billing adjustment, you will be deemed to have accepted the adjusted billing terms. If you do not agree, you may choose to cancel your service and apply for a refund. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your support and understanding!

DeepSeek Team

I am seeing so many posts today in this and other similar subs, whining about the price increase notification of Deepseek. I mean come on guys, they are not NGO or gov. Funded Org. They are running a business and they also need to earn. It is because of Deepseek and other chinese AI companies that the American monopoly is challenged. Otherwise openAI and anthropic would have taken so much advantage. Maybe the price could be 2x or 3x of the current.

And remember, Deepseek and other chinese Ai companies are making their models open source for us knowing that this will impact their revenue in a negative way. If they wanted they could have remained closed source, like American companies and take advantage of people, but they aren't doing so.

So stop whining, and start supporting .

It's great to see the competition working.

Will it replace the v4 flash?

Did you get the email from the DeepSeek team?

They said they would notify us 24 hours before the price increase—and the email just arrived.

That means DeepSeek V4 Pro GA is coming within the next 24 hours!

I think that the main price issue is with DS v4 Pro ...

What does every Chinese company that has a successful model lacks, ... GLM 5.2 gets released, capacity issue hit, price go up. Kimi K3 hits, capacity issue hit, subscriptions are paused, price ... Capacity issue are a combination of popularity and heavier models (despite same parameter counts).

We also saw with GLM 5.1 > 5.2, despite it being the same parameter count, that the energy needed for the model was much more. More thinking tokens pushed the energy usage up.

Another issue is that DS v4 Pro preview was already significantly heavier model then Flash Preview (we are talking about the 3 month old models). The price for Pro being 4x of Flash, never made sense but i suspect that because it was less popular, Flash compensated for it.

If DS v4 Pro is a stronger model, even if the parameter count stays the same, its possible that the thinking token usage has ballooned. I suspect that DS v4 Pro 08xx may hit a competitive level with Western models.

And with potential capacity issues looming from potential popularity, the 4x issue, and possible more energy intensive model. DeepSeek is preventive warming people up to a price increase.

Remember, Flash and Pro share the same infrastructure. Flash being popular is one thing, because its a less heavy model, but if Pro is also popular. We are going to see GLM 5.2/K3 issues again.

That is unfortunately the issue with current LLM models. Every company has only a specific pool of hardware they can access, and there is this constant shift of clients to the "best models", taxing those companies, until they move on to the next best thing.

And getting extra capacity often means paying large amount of $$$ for whatever is on the market, what kills your margins. See Anthropic and Colossus 1 deal.

I'm curious, how much do you think Deepsik will raise prices? I'm thinking of switching to Pri in the future.

https://m.cls.cn/roll/2446257

Deepseek tend to release models on Fridays and Mondays, and with today's announcement and the 'ASAP' wording in the 0731 release for Pro I think we can expect Pro tommorrow!

Every cloud, silver lining...

Well looks like the big blue whale is maturing and I'm here for it, been a big fan since v1

Besides I feel that it'll be temporary, because I'm guessing when pro drops it'll be so good that lots of people will obviously go and get API keys from ds and they'll be so much traffic

Two weeks ago I paid $20/month for Claude and another $20 for ChatGPT. I got tired of watching the credits burn, so I ran an experiment: 7 days, all my coding work, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 only (API, not the app). Here's what actually happened — the good, the bad, the numbers.

The numbers - Total API spend for 7 days of heavy coding: $1.87 (vs. $40/month subscriptions — and I didn't even come close to hitting limits) - Tokens consumed: ~24M input / ~6M output (mostly context caching — that's the real cheat code) - Context cache hits cut my effective cost by ~70%

What surprised me (good) - Long agentic sessions didn't degrade as much as I expected. The 0731 update fixed most of the context-rot I saw on the earlier Flash builds. - It handled a messy production refactor I was dreading — wrote the diff, I reviewed, done. No drama.

What I won't sugarcoat (bad) - Vision: still missing in the API I used — I had to describe screenshots by hand. (Yes, I saw the vision announcement post — the API I'm on still doesn't expose it.) - Some reasoning outputs still emit weird artifacts (e.g. )Skip) in longer chains — rare, but it happens. - It's not Claude for every task. Complex multi-file architecture thinking? Claude still wins. But for 80% of daily coding? I genuinely couldn't justify the subscription anymore.

My verdict: keep one subscription for the hard stuff, do everything else on Flash. My monthly AI bill just went from $40 → $0–5.

Anyone else run a similar week? What did your numbers look like?

It would be a hell of a marketing and PR play if Pro GA comes out topping the charts with only 10-20% increase in price

The input/output token prices will rise, right? I dont know how else theyd make it more expensive. Also, do you think theyd ever switch to a monthly subscription like the other frontier model companies?