https://blog.chuanxilu.net/en/tags/pricing/Recent content in Pricing on Chuanxilu for Skilled Homo sapiensHugoen-USFri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0800https://blog.chuanxilu.net/en/posts/2026/08/deepseek-price-increase-beyond-gpu/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0800https://blog.chuanxilu.net/en/posts/2026/08/deepseek-price-increase-beyond-gpu/On August 6, 2026 DeepSeek announced a planned API price increase. This post unpacks the overdetermined motivations: cost pass-through, user filtering, expectation management, free marketing, a shift to value-based pricing, and the constraint of the open-source ecosystem, with a falsifiable signal list for the window before the official plan.