DeepSeek Lowers AI Coding to $0.14 per Million Tokens
TL;DR
DeepSeek is making AI coding radically cheap: 14 cents per million tokens, with no subscription fee. The open weights are available under an MIT license, so the model can be self-hosted. That combination attacks the pricing models of the large providers head-on. For developers and teams on a tight budget it becomes a serious alternative rather than a curiosity.
Nauti's Take
At $0.14 per million tokens with MIT-licensed open weights, this is a concrete opportunity to build coding workflows that were previously priced out. The catch is that a low price says nothing about quality on hard problems, and self-hosting only shifts cost from an invoice into your own infrastructure.
Worth a benchmark for high-volume routine code, still worth comparing against established models for anything critical.
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