Luchen Technology CEO You Yang explains DeepSeek's cost-profit ratio

You Yang said that the full version of DeepSeek-R1 is priced at 16 yuan per million tokens (output). If 100 billion tokens are output every day, the access enterprise can earn 48 million yuan in a month. However, to complete the output of 100 billion tokens, about 4,000 machines equipped with H800 are needed, and the monthly machine cost alone is 450 million yuan, so the enterprise may face a loss of 400 million yuan per month.