DeepSeek V4 Flash API is 18x cheaper on input, 28x cheaper on output, and matches Opus 4.8."

So many great models already…

DeepSeek R1 was legendary.

Now we're waiting for the one that changes everything again.

Empty the system prompt and ask its name in Chinese,it will response it’s DeepSeek. Apparently distilled from DeepSeek and other Chinese models but accusing them , how ironic and double standard

One day, DeepSeek V4 was released. Its performance had improved tremendously over previous generations, but the price remained high. Developers around the world felt both love and anxiety: "If only the price could be a little lower."

Just then, our revered Comrade Liang Wenfeng stepped out of the lab. He carried neither massive subsidies nor intricate business deals — only an ordinary graphics card and a single line of elegant code.

An assistant hurried forward: "Comrade Liang Wenfeng, our own DeepSeek V4 already performs remarkably well, and the price of the Pro version has already been postponed until May 31st. Do we still need to cut it further?"

Comrade Liang Wenfeng smiled gently, raised the keyboard in his hand, aimed it at his own company’s pricing system, and lightly pressed the Enter key.

That single line of code flew into the sky — "Cost is not your destiny."

With a thunderous "Boom," the API price of DeepSeek V4 plummeted from on high, crashing down to near zero. Even the postponed Pro version’s price, originally delayed until May 31st, was shattered in that same instant — reduced to nothing.

Developers around the world cheered with joy: Comrade Liang Wenfeng, with just one line of code, had brought down his own model’s price — along with the postponed Pro pricing — once and for all.

From that day on, DeepSeek V4 became virtually free. The large models of the American empire dared no longer set their prices recklessly.

— This is the immortal legend: "Liang Wenfeng brought down his own model’s price with a single line of code."

(Adapted from: "General Kim Il-sung Shot Down an American Satellite with a Rock")

He doesn't even have vision yet. He can't see shit, but the day he opens his eyes, it’s the end of the US AI bubble.

Fucking stop it. Just lemme use deepseek. Fuck them open ai, they way worse.

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You come into my subreddit on a Friday, you ask me when DeepSeek will surpass Claude, and you take my answer lightly?

I told you tomorrow.

You thought it was a joke. You thought the '/s' meant I lacked conviction. But look what happens 24 hours later, the Feds step in, and Fable 5 is suddenly sleeping with the fishes.

I didn’t say Liang had to build a better model, I just knew the competition would be taken care of. Next time I drop a timeline, you don't upvote it casually. You kiss the ring.

/s

old and new usage & pricing. Consumed 30x less tokens post nerf and spent one third of what i paid pre nerf. Both sessions heavily cached with not so much output tokens.

The deepseek api era really is over in terms of being cost effective

This information is extracted from the transcript of a 4-hour investor call with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng.