Developer Analysis Shows Rented GPUs Can Cover DeepSeek API Costs
Developers recently analyzed the economics behind DeepSeek's API pricing, revealing that even with rented GPUs, the company's extremely low prices can still be profitable. This suggests their previous pricing strategy was not operating at a loss.
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