alt Hacker NewsI don't know if that's the standard pricing for US models to go down overtime, while Chinese ones go up (start cheap but pay more).
I don't have enough metrics to compare those costs but still Chinese models have been cheaper except against Luna for me.
FWIW, Luna does everything so well, I just keep using it for all my agents by default.
I haven't noticed the Chinese models going up in price for the same model. They do release new versions of the models with different prices that are higher. But everybody is doing that. One fine point is that deepseek-v4-flash-0731 is really a different model than deepseek-v4-flash and it's priced higher.