DeepSeek first disclosed: theoretical cost profit margin 545%

On March 1st, according to the Securities Times, DeepSeek today released an article titled ‘Overview of DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System’, revealing the key secrets behind the V3/R1 inference system. The most noteworthy aspect is that the article first disclosed key information such as the theoretical cost and profit margin of DeepSeek. It is introduced that assuming the GPU rental cost is 2 US dollars/hour, the total cost is 87072 US dollars/day; if all tokens are priced according to DeepSeek R1, the theoretical total revenue for one day is 562027 US dollars/day, and the cost profit margin is 545%.