// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek Flash Latest pricing increased 87.5% prompt, 38.8% completion
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-25 16:44 UTC
CORRECTED 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC — [CORRECTION · headline] Original: “pricing increased 87.5% prompt, 38.8% completion” Fact: Prompt pricing rises 87.5%; completion pricing falls 38.8%.
[CORRECTION · triage.signals] Original: “pricing.prompt decreased: 0.00000004 → 0.000000075 (↓ 87.5%)” Fact: pricing.prompt increased 87.5% (0.00000004 → 0.000000075).
Stood 169h 14m · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter's deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest model pricing changed: prompt tokens from $0.00000004 to $0.000000075 per token (87.5% increase), completion tokens from $0.00000049 to $0.0000003 per token (38.8% decrease).
WHY IT MATTERSIf you route requests to this model by its -latest alias, your per-request cost just increased substantially on the prompt side. High-volume applications sending large prompts will see immediate budget impact.
WHAT TO DOCalculate your current monthly token usage for this model (prompt vs completion split), reforecast cost with the new rates, and update your budget. If the increase is material, consider pinning to a specific versioned model instead of -latest to control future pricing changes.
Model-reported confidence 95% (not measured accuracy)
Primary source ↗
written by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Show the reasoning — raw diff, triage verdict, confidence
RAW DIFF
id: ~deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest -pricing.prompt: 0.00000004 -pricing.completion: 0.00000049 +pricing.prompt: 0.000000075 +pricing.completion: 0.0000003 context_length: 1048576 top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 943718
HOW IT WAS JUDGED
Triage signals below are model-reported assertions, preserved verbatim; they are not independent arithmetic verification.
| triage verdict | MATERIAL at 0.98, needed 0.5 |
|---|---|
| triage reasoning | Pricing changes on a production model directly affect engineering budgets and cost projections. |
| signals | pricing.prompt decreased: 0.00000004 → 0.000000075 (↓ 87.5%) · pricing.completion decreased: 0.00000049 → 0.0000003 (↓ 38.8%) · price change on active model |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |