Open Source Week ends with DeepSeek publishing: Theoretical profit margin reaches 545%

At noon on March 1, DeepSeek published an article titled "Overview of DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System", marking the official end of the "DeepSeek Open Source Week" that attracted global attention. The article announced the optimization details of the model inference system for the first time, and also disclosed key information such as DeepSeek's cost and profit margin.

DeepSeek said: "Assuming that the GPU rental cost is $2/hour, the total cost is $87072/day. ... If all tokens are calculated according to the pricing of DeepSeekR1, the theoretical total revenue per day is $562027, and the cost profit margin is 545%."