A five-yuan toll for every thousand requests
DeepSeek has put web search and scraping on an API price list: five yuan for every thousand successful requests. It’s free for now, with the paywall going up on November 1, 2026. They’re letting you use it for free for over two years first, then they’ll slowly start squeezing value out of it once it’s embedded in your workflows. This plan is more finely tuned than a market maker clicking a mouse.
AI coins get excited as soon as they hear “data and computing power have to be paid for.” Decentralized compute and data networks like these are easy to pull out for valuation comparisons. There’s no sign of a big uptick in on-chain activity, and perpetual funding rates haven’t blown up either. In the short term, this looks more like a news-driven pump: push the price up and hand tokens to market makers, while anyone chasing the rally will probably be left holding the bag at the top.
At five yuan per thousand requests, do you think that’s dirt cheap or bait? Drop your cost basis on your AI coins—I’ll check whether the bulls are already lining up on the rooftop.
$TAO $FET $RENDER
DeepSeek has put web search and scraping on an API price list: five yuan for every thousand successful requests. It’s free for now, with the paywall going up on November 1, 2026. They’re letting you use it for free for over two years first, then they’ll slowly start squeezing value out of it once it’s embedded in your workflows. This plan is more finely tuned than a market maker clicking a mouse.
AI coins get excited as soon as they hear “data and computing power have to be paid for.” Decentralized compute and data networks like these are easy to pull out for valuation comparisons. There’s no sign of a big uptick in on-chain activity, and perpetual funding rates haven’t blown up either. In the short term, this looks more like a news-driven pump: push the price up and hand tokens to market makers, while anyone chasing the rally will probably be left holding the bag at the top.
At five yuan per thousand requests, do you think that’s dirt cheap or bait? Drop your cost basis on your AI coins—I’ll check whether the bulls are already lining up on the rooftop.
$TAO $FET $RENDER