DeepSeek cutting V4-Pro pricing by 75% should be great news.
But there's a catch most people aren't talking about.
Agentic AI workflows don't use tokens the way chatbots do.
One "simple" query can hit 7+ separate model calls before returning an answer - system prompts, retrieval, tool selection, execution, verification, summarization.
Each step carries forward the full context.
Nothing is dropped.
VentureBeat calls it the "100x problem" - agent systems consuming tokens faster than prices are declining.
Input-to-billed ratios hitting 1:700 or higher.
The fix isn't cheaper per-token pricing.
It's flat-rate GPU instances that don't multiply costs with every model call.
RTX 3090s at $0.15/hr.
Buy Now Pay Later - zero upfront, pay after 1 month.
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