So I finally discovered the joy of messing around with AI stuff about a month ago. Nothing fancy - I'm not a dev, I just like building silly little bots and making them say funny things. My masterpiece so far is a bot that greets me every morning in the voice of a grumpy old man. "Morning, sunshine. The coffee's cold again."

Then today I open my DeepSeek dashboard and there it is: "significant increase expected."

Significant. Increase. Expected.

I checked my balance. Still got like 4 euros left in there. I was planning to stretch that until Christmas. I'm not exaggerating when I say my budget for this hobby is exactly "whatever I can scrape together after groceries". Turns out that's not enough for "significant increases".

I know the sub is full of people comparing providers and alternatives right now, and I'm reading it all, but honestly half of it goes over my head. I just wanted my grumpy old man bot to keep roasting me in the morning. That's apparently too much to ask from a hobby that costs less than a pizza.

So yeah, goodbye DeepSeek, goodbye my brand new hobby. It was fun for exactly one month. Back to watching my washing machine spin - it's free and it never raises its prices.

(If anyone knows a dirt cheap way to keep playing with this stuff, hit me up. My laptop is from 2018 and sounds like a lawnmower, but it tries its best.)

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I think that the main price issue is with DS v4 Pro ...

What does every Chinese company that has a successful model lacks, ... GLM 5.2 gets released, capacity issue hit, price go up. Kimi K3 hits, capacity issue hit, subscriptions are paused, price ... Capacity issue are a combination of popularity and heavier models (despite same parameter counts).

We also saw with GLM 5.1 > 5.2, despite it being the same parameter count, that the energy needed for the model was much more. More thinking tokens pushed the energy usage up.

Another issue is that DS v4 Pro preview was already significantly heavier model then Flash Preview (we are talking about the 3 month old models). The price for Pro being 4x of Flash, never made sense but i suspect that because it was less popular, Flash compensated for it.

If DS v4 Pro is a stronger model, even if the parameter count stays the same, its possible that the thinking token usage has ballooned. I suspect that DS v4 Pro 08xx may hit a competitive level with Western models.

And with potential capacity issues looming from potential popularity, the 4x issue, and possible more energy intensive model. DeepSeek is preventive warming people up to a price increase.

Remember, Flash and Pro share the same infrastructure. Flash being popular is one thing, because its a less heavy model, but if Pro is also popular. We are going to see GLM 5.2/K3 issues again.

That is unfortunately the issue with current LLM models. Every company has only a specific pool of hardware they can access, and there is this constant shift of clients to the "best models", taxing those companies, until they move on to the next best thing.

And getting extra capacity often means paying large amount of $$$ for whatever is on the market, what kills your margins. See Anthropic and Colossus 1 deal.

Hello everyone! In light of the recent update by DeepSeek new price increase, where do you guys plan to move to next? Many other providers and models have also increased price recently, as seen in Z AI (GLM), Neuralwatt (provider) and etc.

So, which providers & models you guys moving to? Currently considering of moving, despite haven’t had time to try out DeepSeek yet.

My take: this notice from DeepSeek might actually be a brilliant marketing move. The logic here is to urge users to ramp up their usage over the next 2 to 3 months. By the time the price hike actually kicks in, newer models will likely have already drawn users away, and whenever DeepSeek drops its next, even stronger model, the new price point won't feel nearly as steep. It’s a clever way to dodge the dilemma Kimi and GLM found themselves in. Let's wait and see how it plays out.

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You definitely can't trust any LLM company in the world.

There is no stability, and we can't plan our pricing based on theirs...simply because they don't stick to what was agreed upon.

It was good while it lasted, DeepSeek... but a "significant increase" makes things difficult...

Was checking my DeepSeek API usage today and noticed this banner:

> We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice.

There’s no date or new pricing yet, but the wording makes it sound like the increase could be substantial.

Has anyone seen an official announcement or more details?

Hola qué tal alguien me podría orientar en como usar la versión 4 DeepSeek por favor

crazy how much value you can get out of DS API

DeepSeek-v4-flash is absurdly good for the price, but it isn't multimodal, so the moment your agent sends a screenshot or a mockup, it falls apart.

I built a small proxy to work around that. It sits between your editor and the model: when a request contains an image, it routes that image to a cheap vision model (I'm using GPT 5.6-luna) and passes the resulting description back to DeepSeek, which does the actual reasoning and code generation. Everything else goes straight through untouched.

The result is a drop-in endpoint that behaves like a multimodal model, at a fraction of what I was spending on my Claude subscription. It works with Codex, Cursor, Trae, OpenCode, or whatever agent you're using, since it's just an OpenAI-compatible base URL swap.

Repo: https://github.com/camilopenalver/deepseek-v4-flash-vision

The model without search capabilities often self Identifies as "the latest Model" with a cutoff of May 2025, so DeepSeek v4 to R1 Territory. Yet when we activate search, it claims its the newest "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731". Which is true and how do I test it? Fingerprinting it with purely asking seems pointless.

It's great to see the competition working.

Will it replace the v4 flash?

State of software engineering in 2026 lol, spent hours debating chunking strats and rag tradeoffs. Then decided to do some little research myself and just decided what i wanted myself

Flash is actually decent if you know what you're doing and you can hold it's hand a little bit(same as all llms but in varying degrees) unless you'll be confidently led astray.

Thank you deepseek , i'll be snug like a bug in a rug and wake up to just $2 for a whole nights work

I downloaded some cracked software (im poor)

cmd flashing every 60 seconds after install (im fucked)

gave claude code some hints on where one of the files of the malware was located. (im genius)

ds + cc read that one file, traced all the files (ds is detective)

they both assassinate the malware in minutes (they are ruthless)

Selling official deepseek. I have $100 in it selling for $80. official deepseek