Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230%

What happened: Alibaba raised the output price of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% increase, according to Stork's LLM price catalog. Mistral and Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B also raised prices. Key numbers: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 input $0.20 to $0.44 per million tokens, output $0.40 to $1.32. Mistral Ministral 3B up 150%, 8B up 50%. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B up 52%. Why it matters: The article states the cost spike exposes the fragility of building businesses on subsidized API access, and that builders relying on cheap tokens are at the mercy of the labs.

Alibaba raised the output price of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, a 230% increase, according to Stork's LLM price catalog. Mistral and Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B also raised prices.

The article states the cost spike exposes the fragility of building businesses on subsidized API access, and that builders relying on cheap tokens are at the mercy of the labs.