DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares
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Devs seeing those costs like

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Near-frontier performance at budget pricing is wild.
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This is how disruption actually looks.
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If quality holds, margins across AI will compress.
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Competition finally hitting where it hurts — pricing.
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Hard to justify premium APIs if this scales.
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Feels like the “commoditization” phase starting.
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Enterprises will care less about brand, more about cost.
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Big question: performance consistency over time.
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Cheap inference changes what products are viable.
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I still run on free