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DeepSeek open-sourced an inference framework on October 20, and the accompanying documentation gives a guaranteed minimum price of 38 US dollars per hour for a single card.
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UnverifiedCalculated at off-peak pricing, the DeepSeek cluster earns an average of $38 per card per hour.74% similarUnverifiedDeepSeek responded that the $38 per GPU per hour is a theoretical revenue ceiling calculated based on running at full load 24 hours a day at the stock price, rather than an actual profit margin.69% similarUnverifiedThe $38 mentioned in the article is DeepSeek's own revenue, not the price users pay to use its services.67% similarUnverifiedOutsiders speculate that DeepInfer's average revenue per GPU per hour may be around $46, corresponding to annual revenue of about $400,000.66% similarUnverifiedIn the inference system description DeepSeek published in February 2025, the cost was calculated as follows: an average of 226.75 nodes running, rented at 2 US dollars per card per hour, for a cost of 87,000 US dollars per day; billed at R1's price at the time, revenue was 562,000 US dollars per day, a cost profit margin of 545%.64% similar
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