DeepSeek Dragged for Not Raising Prices While Competitors Hike API Costs 2-6x
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-11
Commenting on recent API pricing debates, developer teortaxesTex pointed out that DeepSeek still hasn't raised its prices, continuing to apologize and turn away users instead. In contrast, other labs have casually hiked their API prices by 2 to 6 times. A quoted tweet notes that this trend signals the end of the era of 'too-cheap-to-meter' Chinese LLMs, as providers align closer to GLM and Kimi pricing levels.
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