alt Hacker NewsDeepSeek is very likely selling tokens at a loss. There're many cloud providers that provide you with DeepSeek V4 Pro via API, and those services at least twice as expensive as DeepSeek itself.
DeepSeek is very likely selling tokens at a loss. There're many cloud providers that provide you with DeepSeek V4 Pro via API, and those services at least twice as expensive as DeepSeek itself.
^Sorry for this understatement. DeepSeek is actually selling tokens at a far cheaper price than my previous comment implied.
DeepSeek V4 Pro price on OpenRouter:
deepseek: $0.435 / $0.87
baidu/fp8: $1.521 / $3.042
novita/fp8: $1.64 / $3.38
Yup. DeepSeek either has next-generation hardware that somehow no one else has access to, or they're selling at a loss.