// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek Flash Latest pricing increased 35-71% effective now
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-28 23:02 UTC
CORRECTED 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC — [CORRECTION · triage.signals] Original: “pricing.prompt decreased 71% (0.000000035 → 0.00000006)” Fact: pricing.prompt increased 71.4% (0.000000035 → 0.00000006).
Stood 90h 56m · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter raised pricing for deepseek/deepseek-flash-latest: prompt tokens from $0.035/M to $0.060/M (+71%), completion tokens from $0.290/M to $0.390/M (+35%). The change is live in the catalogue as of 28 September 2026.
WHY IT MATTERSTotal cost per request increases 35-39% depending on workload mix. A typical workload generating three completion tokens per prompt token now costs 36% more. If you route to this model by its -latest alias, you are already paying the new rate.
WHAT TO DOPull current month-to-date spend for this model ID from your OpenRouter dashboard, multiply by 1.36, and update your October forecast. If the increase breaks budget, pin to a specific versioned model instead of using the -latest alias.
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-flash-latest name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest -pricing.prompt: 0.000000035 -pricing.completion: 0.00000029 +pricing.prompt: 0.00000006 +pricing.completion: 0.00000039 context_length: 1048576 top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 384000
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 tracked model directly affect cost planning and budget forecasting for teams using this API. |
| signals | pricing.prompt decreased 71% (0.000000035 → 0.00000006) · pricing.completion increased 34% (0.00000029 → 0.00000039) · price change on active model in catalogue |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |