DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch

DeepSeek warns of a ‘significant’ price rise, reversing its cheap-AI pitch

DeepSeek, which triggered a global API price war, is raising prices significantly—just after V4-Flash became the market's cheapest capable model. The reversal marks the end of cheap-AI subsidies; as rivals match DeepSeek's cost-capability, customers relying on price alone must plan stack migrations.