Alibaba quietly triples DeepSeek V4 Flash output prices overnight

Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230%

Stork's daily price trackers caught 17 overnight price changes across AI labs. Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens — a 230% jump — and more than doubled input costs. Mistral hiked Ministral 3B and 8B by 150% and 50%, and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B rose 52%. Only Zhipu AI moved the other way, cutting GLM-5V-Turbo by 85%. The subsidized-token era is ending.