Yes, but even the cheapest providers on OpenRouter are charging at least 10x what DeepSeek does for cached input tokens, which is where DeepSeek gets most of the cheapness.

(nevermind, I was reading DeepInfra as Deepseek. My bad)

You are missing a 0 to the left of the 2 on Deepseek's number

This would be more convincing if those providers had converged on a number that was not the exact pricing of DeepSeek themselves. Clearly DeepSeek is setting the price here and without them holding it down I expect increases.

Before this release, there were providers undercutting deepseek on the preview version.

I suspect that once the hype dies down, or the field gets more competitive we will see the same on 0731.

Non necessarily, they can easily increase market share by staying where they are.

$0.14 is CN¥1. that's where the 0.14 comes from

OK? Maybe DeepSeek set their price that way, but the majority of these OpenRouter inference providers are in the US, not China, and have no reason to care about CNY at all.

The most expensive defines the price. Others need to be just slightly cheaper.