// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp pricing doubled on OpenRouter
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-29 12:17 UTC
[ARITHMETIC NOTE · WHAT CHANGED] Original: “Total cost per request increases 102-103% across all workload mixes.” Fact: Across all nonnegative fixed token mixes, the price increase ranges from prompt-only 100.9% to completion-only 103.4%. At one, three and ten completions per prompt, it is approximately 102.4%, 102.9% and 103.2%.
[ARITHMETIC NOTE · WHY IT MATTERS] Original: “goes from $7.39 to $15.13.” Fact: At 10M prompt and 30M completion tokens/month, captured cost goes from $7.392 to $15.00.
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
Noted 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter increased pricing for deepseek/deepseek-v3.2-exp effective now: prompt tokens from $0.1344/M to $0.2700/M (+100.9%), completion tokens from $0.2016/M to $0.4100/M (+103.4%). Total cost per request increases 102-103% across all workload mixes.
WHY IT MATTERSAny application calling this model through OpenRouter will see costs double immediately. A workload generating 10M prompt tokens and 30M completion tokens monthly goes from $7.39 to $15.13.
WHAT TO DOPull current month-to-date spend for this model from OpenRouter dashboard, multiply by 2.0, and update your forecast. If the new cost exceeds budget, evaluate switching to deepseek-chat or another provider's DeepSeek endpoint.
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-v3.2-exp name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp -pricing.prompt: 0.0000001344 -pricing.completion: 0.0000002016 +pricing.prompt: 0.00000027 +pricing.completion: 0.00000041 context_length: 163840 top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 147456
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 on DeepSeek V3.2 Exp. Teams budgeting or comparing costs need to know. |
| signals | pricing.prompt increased ~2x (0.0000001344 → 0.00000027) · pricing.completion increased ~2x (0.0000002016 → 0.00000041) · 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) |