SMRTR AIFeb 12, 2025Hacker Noon

How DeepSeek’s 9x Lower Price Is Slowing Down Your AI

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DeepSeek's AI model offers significant cost savings compared to OpenAI's GPT-4, being approximately 9 times cheaper per million tokens. However, DeepSeek's response times are much slower, averaging 10-20 seconds compared to GPT-4's 4.2 seconds, presenting a clear trade-off between cost and speed for developers to consider based on their specific application needs.

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