Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...
DeepInfra's Cache Read is 6.5 times more expensive than DeepSeek.
Interesting. My anecdotal experience is that it is.
I agree with parent. OpenRouter might be cheaper list-price, but i have been using 10$ on DS platform since April/May, still have 2$ left. Using OpenRouter i depleted the same dollar-amount in a 1-2 weeks with same usage pattern. No idea why.