It wins on two fronts if this is true. Provides the cheap alternative for the West, and maximizes returns against their homegrown audience.

Yeah I saw complaints about this under their twitter announcement, that they're giving discounts to the rich foreign customers and screwing their own people.

Makes sense - many US customers will probably be going to US providers once they release the weights.

Not that surprised about it. Personally I've seen companies really just go all-in on a single provider, and that has usually been Anthropic. I don't think we're allowed to run Chinese models even locally.

That's a bit obvious, isn't it?

Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC

For European and US customers this is effectively 2x increase. I think i wll keep using both Flash and Pro as before.

EDIT: Misread numbers to believe off-peak kept old prices

Of course. I avoid using Deepseek now that Gemini Flash is basically free on the site.

Also, Deepseek is banned in EU/US companies due to being Chinese.

During casual use Deepseek has replied to me entirely in Chinese.

Now, bring on the China glaze replies.