// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision pricing more than doubled
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-28 04:08 UTC
CORRECTED 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC — [CORRECTION · WHAT CHANGED] Original: “Completion tokens increased 260% from $262,144/M to $943,717/M.” Fact: Completion pricing rises 104.1%, from $0.6468/M to $1.32/M. The numbers 262,144 and 943,717 are token limits.
[CORRECTION · WHY IT MATTERS] Original: “Total cost per request increases 260% regardless of prompt-to-completion ratio. A workload generating 100M completion tokens per month that cost $26,214 now costs $94,372. Budgets and cost projections based on the previous rate are now off by more than 2.5x.” Fact: Both captured price components rise 104.1%, so their fixed-usage blend rises 104.1% for every mix. At 100M completion tokens/month, the component goes from $64.68 to $132.00. Token-limit growth is not price growth.
[CORRECTION · triage.triage reasoning] Original: “output token limit tripled” Fact: Output limit increases from 262,144 to 943,717, approximately 3.60 times its previous value.
Stood 109h 50m · cause extraction error · every correction ↗
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter raised pricing for deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp effective 28 September 2026. Prompt tokens increased 104% from $0.2156/M to $0.4400/M. Completion tokens increased 260% from $262,144/M to $943,717/M. Maximum completion tokens per request increased from 262,144 to 943,717.
WHY IT MATTERSTotal cost per request increases 260% regardless of prompt-to-completion ratio. A workload generating 100M completion tokens per month that cost $26,214 now costs $94,372. Budgets and cost projections based on the previous rate are now off by more than 2.5x.
WHAT TO DOReforecast monthly spend using the new rates and notify whoever approves the AI budget. If this model is called from production code, check whether cost alerts or circuit breakers need new thresholds.
Model-reported confidence 95% (not measured accuracy)
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written by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Show the reasoning — raw diff, triage verdict, confidence
RAW DIFF
id: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp -pricing.prompt: 0.0000002156 -pricing.completion: 0.0000006468 +pricing.prompt: 0.00000044 +pricing.completion: 0.00000132 context_length: 1048576 -top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 262144 +top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 943717
HOW IT WAS JUDGED
Triage signals below are model-reported assertions, preserved verbatim; they are not independent arithmetic verification.
| triage verdict | MATERIAL at 0.95, needed 0.5 |
|---|---|
| triage reasoning | Pricing doubled and output token limit tripled for this model variant. |
| signals | pricing.prompt increased ~2.04x · pricing.completion increased ~2.04x · max_completion_tokens increased ~3.6x (262144 → 943717) |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |