Dax (from Opencode) has tweeted that they can replicate or beat the price with rented GPUs. Deepseeks secret sauce is the incredibly cheap caching (magnitude cheaper than other providers).

vLLM has recently released a similar approach. It's not as effective as what DeepSeek does but still an interesting development.

I have no doubt that in due time other providers will match or perhaps even beat the current DeepSeek prices.

Yes, there is warning, but also there are many providers on OpenRouter[0], hosting open weight model with similar pricing. The question is Will they go up as well?

[0] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...

But the model is open weight?

I assume/hope this is about prices going up for the next release of Pro

even if they double it it`s from such a low base it is still supercheap

Source?