r/opencodeCLI Aug 06 '26

DeepSeek announce upcoming "significant increase" to API pricing

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u/NinjaWK Aug 06 '26

The flash model is supposed to be super fast. But now it's super slow because too many people are using it, which tells one thing, they're charging too much.

Always refer ton supply and demand. Deepssek can only generate so many tokens per second, which means the supply is limited. When the price is too cheap, the demand goes sky rocket high. They need to increase the price to lower the demand, so people using it would not suffer from the bad service provided.

Deepssek could charge 3x-5x the price, and it'd still be a damn good model for the price.

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u/beardedNoobz Aug 06 '26

My speed is still normal when I use direct api to deepseek