Stork: Alibaba raised its price for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by 230%

Stork AI Daily, a newsletter that runs its own LLM price catalog, reports that Alibaba raised the price of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 overnight. This is Stork's account from its own tracker; neither Alibaba nor DeepSeek has announced it, and the newsletter does not say which Alibaba service it means.

According to Stork:

• Output went from $0.40 to $1.32 per million tokens, and input from $0.20 to $0.44.
• Across the models it tracks it logged 17 price changes. It says Mistral raised its latest Ministral 3B and 8B by 150% and 50%, Alibaba's Qwen3.6 35B-A3B rose 52%, and Zhipu AI cut GLM-5V-Turbo by 85%.

The newsletter's wider claims about labs ending subsidized pricing are its own opinion. The Hacker News thread had 23 points and 17 comments by October 20.