DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 input price cut to $0.0173 per 1M tokens
Input pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has dropped from $0.03 to $0.0173 per 1M tokens, as listed on OpenRouter. Output pricing is unchanged at $1.28 per 1M tokens. The cut applies only to the input side, so the gap between reading and generating has widened considerably.
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheaper input makes it less costly to push large amounts of context into a prompt, so tools built on this model can afford to pull in more source pages per answer. Make sure your product, pricing and comparison pages are crawlable and complete, because breadth of retrieved context now costs less than it did.
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