DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 input price cut to $0.0009 per 1M tokens
Input pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 dropped from $0.0036 to $0.0009 per 1M tokens, a four-fold reduction. Output pricing is unchanged at $1.28 per 1M tokens. The change is listed on OpenRouter's models endpoint.
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheaper input tokens make it viable to feed far more context per call, so teams running retrieval or brand-monitoring pipelines on this model can widen the amount of source material they pass in without a meaningful cost increase. Output costs are untouched, so savings only land on input-heavy workloads, not on generating long answers.
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