cheap-inference
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “cheap-inference” — 2 items.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (API) Tool
A strong open-weight reasoning and coding model now offered through DeepSeek's own API at a permanently cut, low per-token price, undercutting frontier closed models for high-volume work.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (API) Tool
The updated V4 Flash checkpoint now serves behind the existing deepseek-v4-flash identifier, with a 1-million-token context, 384K maximum output, tool calls, and an OpenAI-, Anthropic- and Responses-API-compatible interface. Fresh input runs $0.14 per million tokens, output $0.28, and cached input $0.0028 - a fiftyfold discount on repeated prefixes.