A Rough Calculation of DeepSeek's Compute Revenue
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-15
The post breaks down DeepSeek's compute and revenue: estimated at 10K t/s per GPU and $0.28 per 1 million tokens, a single card could generate about $88.3K annually. Based on this, the author deduces that sustaining a $500M ARR might only require around 5662 GPUs, questioning the narrative of needing thousands of cards to support massive ARR.
Related event: DeepSeek inference economics: sizing the GPU fleet behind its ARR(8 posts)→
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