Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has reported a theoretical daily profit margin of 545% for its inference services, despite limitations in monetisation and discounted pricing structures. The company shared these details in a recent GitHub post, outlining the operational costs and revenue potential of its DeepSeek-V3 and R1 models.
Based on DeepSeek-R1’s pricing model—charging $0.14 per million input tokens for cache hits, $0.55 per million for cache misses, and $2.19 per million…
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