Crusoe adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to Serverless Inference at $0.29/1M input
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026 captures of Crusoe's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to Serverless Inference rate card: $0.29 input, $0.20 output, $0.007 cached per 1M tokens; V4 Flash row unchanged. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new add-on) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 2, 2026) lists Managed Inference - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.01 per 1M cached tokens + $0.20 per 1M output tokens, NVIDIA H200 (141GB) On-Demand at $4.29 per GPU-hr, NVIDIA L40S (48GB) On-Demand at $1.50 per GPU-hr, NVIDIA H100 (80GB) On-Demand at $3.90 per GPU-hr and NVIDIA A100 PCIe (80GB) On-Demand at $2 per GPU-hr.
It lands 7 days after Crusoe's previous change, "Crusoe drops Kimi K2.6 ($0.70/$3.50 per 1M) from Managed Inference lineup" (Oct 5, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Crusoe: GPT-OSS 20B fine-tuning price $0.40->$2.50 + 2 more changes" (Sep 28, 2026), "Crusoe adds Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B to Serverless Inference at $1/$3.20 per…" (Jul 27, 2026) and "Crusoe: Launched Serverless Fine-Tuning + Self-Serve Deployments" (Jul 20, 2026). Crusoe has been tracked since 2026-06-18.
In the same window Spacelift, Tray.ai, Salad, Scalr and RunPod also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Serverless Inference · Add-onAddedNo DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless Inference | Add-on | No DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Added |
Values as written on Crusoe's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Crusoe's pricing page (www.crusoe.ai) from Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now appears.
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Crusoe, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 12, 2026packagingCrusoe adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to Serverless Inference at $0.29/1M input · this change
- Oct 5, 2026packagingCrusoe drops Kimi K2.6 ($0.70/$3.50 per 1M) from Managed Inference lineup
- Sep 28, 2026increaseCrusoe: GPT-OSS 20B fine-tuning price $0.40->$2.50 + 2 more changes
- Jul 27, 2026packagingCrusoe adds Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B to Serverless Inference at $1/$3.20 per…
- Jul 20, 2026improvedCrusoe: Launched Serverless Fine-Tuning + Self-Serve Deployments
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- SpaceliftNov 2Spacelift rebuilds lineup: $399 Starter replaces quote-only, Free gets full card
- Tray.aiNov 2Tray.ai swaps "Talk to sales" for "Sized to your needs" on paid plans
- SaladNov 2Salad hikes RTX 5090 High-priority GPU rate 20% to $0.60/hr; Lowest tier flat
- ScalrNov 2Scalr spells out billable runs: failed runs count, drift detection is free
- RunPodNov 2RunPod raises Serverless GPU prices up to 25%, drops savings claim
Questions about this change
Did Crusoe raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new add-on.
What changed on Crusoe's pricing page between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026?
Serverless Inference add-on: No DeepSeek V4.1 Flash → DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Crusoe change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Crusoe in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Crusoe drops Kimi K2.6 ($0.70/$3.50 per 1M) from Managed Inference lineup" on Oct 5, 2026; Crusoe has been tracked since 2026-06-18.