Deepseek just announced there price increase. For me it will become too expensive to keep running my agent. I would like to hear what you guys are thinking from this news.
Genuinely curious why so many people still jump through hoops to defend DeepSeek like they are some benevolent non-profit fighting big tech.
It looks like classic loss-leading to capture market share. First you enter the market with unsustainably cheap pricing to undercut everyone and pull in every single dev, indie hacker, and hobbyist. Then everyone rewrites their agent loops, cron jobs, and pipelines around prompt caching because it was basically free. Now that everyone is hooked and built into their ecosystem, they introduce peak billing and jack up cache-hit rates by more than 10x.
People spent months roasting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for their pricing, praising DeepSeek for democratizing AI. But the second DeepSeek pulls the classic tech bait and switch once server capacity gets tight, half the sub is suddenly making excuses for them telling people it is just basic supply and demand, or to just run cron jobs at 3 AM.
Yes, the open weights and research papers are great, nobody is denying that. But on the API side, this is the exact same aggressive market-capture playbook any other company uses.
Why are people so hesitant to call this out when they would have grabbed pitchforks if OpenAI pulled a 10x price hike overnight?
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