AI labs raise prices with little notice after DeepSeek API hike; customers warn about production impact and the need to reconsider hosting or providers.
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Seen a ton of posts today about the DeepSeek API price hike. Half the feed is doom-posting, the other half is explaining basic GPU economics. Honestly, I get the cost side. Sub-cent tokens were never gonna last...
Original headline: "I get that AI labs need to make money, but zero-warning price spikes are a nightmare for production builds"
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- Aug 6, 07:19 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source I get that AI labs need to make money, but zero-warning price spikes are a nightmare for production builds