Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230%
Stork AI's daily newsletter reports that its own price catalog, which tracks first-party list prices, recorded overnight increases to several model prices. Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output pricing from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% rise, with input costs also more than doubling. Mistral raised Ministral 3B and 8B prices by 150% and 50%, and Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B output rose 52%. Zhipu AI cut GLM-5V-Turbo prices by 85%.
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Stork AI's daily newsletter reports that its own price catalog, which tracks first-party list prices, recorded overnight increases to several model prices. Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output pricing from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% rise, with input costs also more than doubling. Mistral raised Ministral 3B and 8B prices by 150% and 50%, and Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B output rose 52%. Zhipu AI cut GLM-5V-Turbo prices by 85%.
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- Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output price from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% increase.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 input price rose from $0.20 to $0.44 per million tokens.
- Stork's catalog logged 17 distinct price movements; Zhipu AI cut GLM-5V-Turbo prices by 85%.
- Mistral raised Ministral 3B prices by 150% and Ministral 8B by 50%.
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Builders relying on cheap API tokens face rising costs, which can change margins for agentic and high-volume applications. The article argues caching, prompt optimization, and cost-aware design become more important as subsidized pricing recedes.
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