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The free outlier. DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash are free for consumer use, funded by the company's derivatives trading business. No comparable tool offers frontier-class performance at $0/month. The funding model is the asterisk.
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Free
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131M+
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DeepSeek Raised Prices Up to 1,114%. What You'll Actually Pay Is a Different Number.
DeepSeek's API price hike is reported as up to 1,114%. That's the smallest charge on the bill. Output pricing, up 355-371%, actually raises most invoices.
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DeepSeek Raised Prices Up to 1,114%. What You'll Actually Pay Is a Different Number.
DeepSeek's API price hike is reported as up to 1,114%. That's the smallest charge on the bill. Output pricing, up 355-371%, actually raises most invoices.
DeepSeek Warned Prices Are Going Up. It Won't Say How Much or When.
DeepSeek warned of a 'significant' API price hike on Aug 6 with no figures or date. Independently reconfirmed Aug 12: still neither number nor date published.
While Five Frontier Labs Were Tightening Limits, One Tracked Vendor Cut Prices 75% and Shipped a Capability Upgrade
DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro cut permanent and kept its tier free while five labs tightened limits. The price is real. So is the China-jurisdiction question.
DeepSeek V4 vs. American AI: How a Chinese Lab Is Winning on Price While US Labs Fight Over Benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 preview April 24: V4-Pro at $1.74/$3.48/M — 7x cheaper than GPT-5.5. MIT license, 1M context. China data risk for API users. Free chat app.
Can Quantum Math Really Shrink DeepSeek by 95%? A Spanish Startup Has $215M Riding on the Answer.
Multiverse Computing claims 95% AI compression with 2-3% accuracy loss. $215M raised, enterprise API launched March 2026. Validation exists—with caveats.
DeepSeek Upgraded 100M Users Silently — Is Another Wall Street Shock Coming?
DeepSeek silently 8x'd its context window to 1M tokens as V4 looms. CNBC warns of another Wall Street shock. Open-source, 10-40x cheaper.
DeepSeek V3.2 Launched: Open-Source AI Overtakes Frontier Labs
DeepSeek just dropped V3.2. Gold medals in IMO, CMO, IOI. Beats GPT-5 High. Rivals Gemini 3 Pro. 100% open-source. 5× cheaper than GPT-5.
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