← Back to context Comment by giancarlostoro 7 days ago Is Deepseek just eating cost or are people able to host their open models for comparable costs? 5 comments giancarlostoro Reply psittacus 7 days ago If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are:- twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87)- six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05)https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr... trollbridge 7 days ago Other people are hosting it in the same order of magnitude. Xioami recently matched DeepSeek’s pricing. re-thc 7 days ago They focused on caching and other optimizations. natrys 7 days ago These things enormously benefit from economies of scale. I am fairly certain their margins might be low but they don't actually sell API at loss, however that doesn't mean your cost footprint would be anywhere as low. rsanek 7 days ago Likely CCP-subsidized
psittacus 7 days ago If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are:- twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87)- six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05)https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr...
trollbridge 7 days ago Other people are hosting it in the same order of magnitude. Xioami recently matched DeepSeek’s pricing.
natrys 7 days ago These things enormously benefit from economies of scale. I am fairly certain their margins might be low but they don't actually sell API at loss, however that doesn't mean your cost footprint would be anywhere as low.
If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are:
- twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87)
- six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05)
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr...
Other people are hosting it in the same order of magnitude. Xioami recently matched DeepSeek’s pricing.
They focused on caching and other optimizations.
These things enormously benefit from economies of scale. I am fairly certain their margins might be low but they don't actually sell API at loss, however that doesn't mean your cost footprint would be anywhere as low.
Likely CCP-subsidized