The Debate Over DeepSeek-Level Pricing and the Grok Serving Stack
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-07
Addressing claims about offering inference at "DeepSeek-level killer prices," teortaxesTex pushes back: assertions that xAI runs Grok using SGLang or that third parties claim costs are 5x lower than DeepSeek's own API are exaggerated. DeepSeek has been utilizing these serving optimization techniques since the V3 era, and the Grok API is actually more expensive. The discussion touches on inference serving stack optimizations and the economics of compute.
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