DeepSeek is preparing to raise API prices, marking a potential shift for one of the AI industry's most aggressive low-cost strategies. On August 6, DeepSeek announced that it plans to increase API prices, warning users that the increase could be substantial. The move comes after DeepSeek-V4-Flash helped the company strengthen its position as a low-cost AI provider. According to its official API pricing, V4-Flash costs just ¥1 per million input tokens and ¥2 per million output tokens, while cached input tokens are priced at only ¥0.02 per million tokens. The potential price increase highlights a broader challenge for AI companies: aggressive pricing can accelerate adoption, but scaling AI usage requires significant computing resources.
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DeepSeek 于 8 月 6 日宣布计划上调 API 价格，并警告涨幅可能相当大，此举或标志其激进低价策略的转变。此前 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 以极低定价巩固了其低成本 AI 提供商地位：输入 ¥1/百万 token、输出 ¥2/百万 token、缓存输入仅 ¥0.02/百万 token。
DeepSeek is preparing to raise API prices, marking a potential shift for one of the AI industry's most aggressive low-cost strategies. On August 6, DeepSeek announced that it plans to increase API prices, warning users that the increase could be substantial. The move comes after DeepSeek-V4-Flash helped the company strengthen its position as a low-cost AI provider. According to its official API pricing, V4-Flash costs just ¥1 per million input tokens and ¥2 per million output tokens, while cached input tokens are priced at only ¥0.02 per million tokens. The potential price increase highlights a broader challenge for AI companies: aggressive pricing can accelerate adoption, but scaling AI usage requires significant computing resources.
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