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The Great AI Price Collapse: How DeepSeek & Open Weights Broke the Proprietary LLM Monopoly

Model inference costs have plummeted over 90% in under a year. Here is a granular breakdown of how DeepSeek, open-weight architectures, and prompt caching shattered proprietary pricing power—and what it means for SaaS margins and solo developers.

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