> Deepseek also came with heavily subsidized plans, at least at first.
I got a source straight from the hoses mouth, which claims that DeepSeek-R1 was highly profitable:
> If all tokens were billed at DeepSeek-R1’s pricing (*), the total daily revenue would be $562,027, with a cost profit margin of 545%.
With DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, the memory requirements for the KV cache have been reduced by over 50x and FLOPS by over 5x, so it is even cheaper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.19969