DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: output price quadruples, input drops
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 input pricing fell from $0.018 to $0.01 per 1M tokens. Output pricing moved the other way, from $0.32 to $1.28 per 1M tokens, a four-fold rise. The model is now much cheaper to feed and considerably more expensive to generate from.
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run answer-generation or content pipelines on this model, recheck your unit economics this week, long outputs now dominate the bill while large prompts cost less than before. Tasks that read a lot and write a little, such as classification or extraction over your docs, got cheaper.
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