LLM API Pricing Climbs as Alibaba Lifts DeepSeek Rates
Alibaba quietly raised the list price of a popular budget model, according to a price tracker run by Stork AI. Its report dated October 20, 2026 shows DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output pricing moving from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens. Input pricing more than doubled as well.
If you build products on top of AI models, this matters this week. LLM API pricing has mostly fallen over the past two years, and many budgets still assume that trend will continue. One quiet change can erase the margin on a feature you already sold.
What Stork’s Price Tracker Recorded
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