DeepSeek API Costs $1.14/Day; Dual DGX Breaks Even in 24 Years
delduca · hn · 2026-08-10
A developer shared the cost of running OpenCode using the DeepSeek API, which amounts to just $1.14 per day. Given this incredibly cheap inference pricing, it would take 24 years to recoup the initial hardware investment of buying two NVIDIA DGX workstations for local deployment.
This starkly highlights the massive contrast between aggressive cloud API pricing and the exorbitant cost of owning compute hardware.
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