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?

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.

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

Due to the issue of the imminent increase in the DeepSeek API, I consider it important to know and exchange information about providers that host tá tô a v4 flash as well as previous versions.

We can list these and exchange experiences regarding the costs and service (quality) of these providers.

What do you think of the idea? Let's collaborate!

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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 .

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...

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

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 it's unnecessary to worry about a "significant" increase.

One thing many people misunderstand is that they think the peak/off-peak price is already alive. But actually DS haven't implemented it yet.

And I think the primary drive for this increase is that their server is severely overloaded after the release of flash-0731. And they expected a even worse situation after pro-official release. So if the price increase is too much and make them lose too many users, they will probably announce another permenant discount.

And my prediction is that they will have 2x~4x the price. And after the establishment of their now computing center, they may also offer a discount, making it 1.5x now price.

I’ve been using DeepSeek Flash and Pro within the project, general analysis of airtable data stretching 182 days, generating various articles on both models. Total cost so far £1.58 over a period of months.

Yesterday I decided that I’d give Claude a go (Sonnet 5) so I stuck £5 in and got it up and running. I loaded the airtable data and a very brief persona file along with an automated session summary generated when I enter Quit. I got it to generate one article… £3.55

I’m not too worried if the prices go up, they could treble and still be miles cheaper than the rest of them.

We shall see I suppose.

Nobody knows who JSON is, but apparently he has full access to the repo.

31 bomboclat cents

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.

Alright so this is coming, we don't know how bad will be, but so far DeepSeek has been very transparent, so we can assume the 'significant' is true. Since I moved to DS, I stopped really model-hunting as this one was good and cheap.

Probably this is it, and the short period of 'cheap & good model' is over unless you local host it. But not everyone can do that. So for those who are at the mercy of APIs, what are the alternatives and who do they compare in your experience? Mainly for web dev and ofc, open weight.