{"id":153756,"date":"2026-06-30T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153756"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:00:09","slug":"after-triggering-price-war-deepseek-reverses-course-with-surcharge-on-peak-hour-api-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153756","title":{"rendered":"After triggering price war, DeepSeek reverses course with surcharge on peak-hour API use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese artificial intelligence unicorn DeepSeek is introducing peak-hour surcharges for its API services, bucking a fierce domestic price war it helped start, in which rivals have been aggressively undercutting each other to capture market share.<br \/>\nThe Chinese AI champion will double the price for access to its V4 AI models through its application programming interface (API) during peak hours \u2013 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time \u2013 according to an email sent to service subscribers on Monday&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3358868\/after-triggering-price-war-deepseek-reverses-course-surcharge-peak-hour-api-use?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese artificial intelligence unicorn DeepSeek is introducing peak-hour surcharges for its API services, bucking a fierce domestic price war it helped start, in which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153756"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}