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Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by LaurensBER on Friday August 07, 2026 @02:40PM (#49214650)
There's more to inference than just the input/output token cost. Caching has a massive impact.

Deepseek charges $0.0028 per cache read on Openrouter. The next cheapest is $0.018.

That's a massive difference and quickly adds up on coding sessions (which often hit 95%+ cached tokens).

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