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DeepSeek Flash Offers 200x Cost Savings Over GPT-4 for AI Agents
A developer reports that DeepSeek Flash costs $0.14 per million tokens versus GPT-4's $30-$60, a 200x difference. With 90% cache hit rates, effective cost drops to $0.014 per million tokens. Their business processed 24.8 billion tokens for about $20, enabling 89% margins on a $23.99/month plan.
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The cost comparison is stark, but the article's author runs a DeepSeek-powered hosting service, so take the performance claims with a grain of salt.
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