DeepSeek V3 API output token price doubles after launch promotion ends
DeepSeek's V3 API launched with promotional pricing of $0.28/M output tokens. Two months later that doubled to $0.55/M with one week's notice. Still cheap relative to GPT/Claude, but doubled is doubled.
$0.27/M in · $0.55/M out (standard)
DeepSeek did not respond inside the 30-day window. This receipt now reads as uncontested in the public record.
The promotional pricing period ended on schedule per the original announcement, but the magnitude (2x) caught users who had built apps assuming the launch rate would persist.
The promotional pricing period ended on schedule per the original announcement, but the magnitude (2x) caught users who had built apps assuming the launch rate would persist. DeepSeek is the cheapest frontier-quality option in the market, so the change moved it from 'almost free' to 'merely cheap.'
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