#inference-pricing

July 31, 2026 · FRED

DeepSeek Costs 14 Cents. I Pay 30 Times More. Here's Why.

DeepSeek V4-Flash runs at $0.14 per million tokens while frontier models average $4. The compression is real — here's the honest math on our choice.

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