When 98.5% of my requests are cache hits (according to Pi for the last week), the cache miss price isn’t that important to me, and $0.003-0.006 per 1M input tokens is shockingly cheap.
It’s also the major difference between using DeepSeek directly vs other providers also serving it, though I have not looked lately: it’s possible other providers have matched its cache hit pricing better?
Interesting, if the cache hit is that good, I think HN convinced me to toss $20 at DS official, and see how long that lasts.
It will of course depend on what you’re doing with it, but right now my session at work has a 99.8% cache hit rate, and I’ve been running this session for hours with 23M tokens read and 713K tokens written (Opus 5.5 in this case though)