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Comment by maattdd

15 hours ago

DeepSeek without OpenRouter is wayyyy cheaper

Is it? OpenRouter shows DeepInfra being cheaper than DeepSeek directly

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260731#pr...

  • 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.

  • DeepInfra's Cache Read is 6.5 times more expensive than DeepSeek.

    • And in many scenarios, cache hits are 99% of tokens, so the price difference in caching really adds up quickly.