Fireworks Pricing Restructured: DeepSeek R1 0528 Sees 55% Input and 32.5% Output Price Reduction

Between the Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Fireworks' pricing page, Pulse recorded 22 changes: DeepSeek R1 (Fast) model removed from pricing; Prompt caching introduced with 50% discount for all serverless text and vision models (except Qwen3 VL series); Meta Llama 4 Maverick (Basic) model removed from pricing; DeepSeek R1 0528 pricing changed from $3.00 input/$8.00 output to $1.35 input/$0.68 cached/$5.4 output (55% price reduction on input, 32.5% on output); Meta Llama 3.1 405B model removed from pricing; Fine-tuning restructured into Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) with separate pricing columns; Qwen3 235B Family and GLM-4.5 Air renamed to Qwen3 235B Family (GLM-4.5 Air component removed); Kimi K2 Thinking model added alongside existing Kimi K2 Instruct, both with same pricing $0.60 input, $0.30 cached, $2.50 output; DeepSeek V3 pricing changed from flat $0.90/1M tokens to separate input ($0.56), cached ($0.28), and output ($1.68) pricing; Qwen3 8B embeddings model added with pricing $0.1 per 1M input tokens; Qwen3 VL 30B A3B model added with pricing $0.15 input, $0.60 output; AMD MI300X GPU ($4.99/hour) removed from on-demand deployments; Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) section added, priced per GPU hour at same rates as on-demand deployment; DPO pricing for Models >300B introduced at $20.00 (vs $10.00 for SFT); DPO pricing for Models 80B-300B introduced at $12.00 (vs $6.00 for SFT); DPO pricing for Models up to 16B introduced at $1.00 (vs $0.50 for SFT); Meta Llama 4 Scout (Basic) model removed from pricing; MiniMax M2 model added with pricing $0.30 input, $0.15 cached, $1.20 output; Qwen3 30B and Qwen Coder Flash model removed from pricing; DPO pricing for Models 16.1B-80B introduced at $6.00 (vs $3.00 for SFT); Prompt caching added for Kimi K2 models at $0.30 cached (50% discount from $0.60 input); GLM-4.5 and DeepSeek R1 (Basic) renamed to GLM-4.5, GLM-4.6 (DeepSeek R1 Basic component removed). Pulse files it as a pricing change (plan removed, feature added, packaging change, plan renamed, new plan, price increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 15, 2026) lists Serverless at $0.08 per 10M input tokens (embeddings, up to 150M params) + $0.16 per 10M input tokens (embeddings, 150M-350M params), Fine Tuning at $0.50 per 1M training tokens, LoRA SFT (models up to 16B params) and On-Demand at $13 per GPU hour (B200 180GB) + $15 per GPU hour (B300 288GB).

Fireworks' previous recorded change was "Fireworks Announces Major Price Decrease on H100 GPU, Now Just $4.00/hour (31% Off)" (Q3 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Fireworks Announces Major 30% Price Reduction on H200 141 GB GPU Hourly Rate, Now Just $6.99" (Q2 2025), "Fireworks Unveils Major 10x Increase in Serverless Inference RPM for Developer Plan, Boosting Capacity to 6,000" (Q1 2025) and "Fireworks Introduces DeepSeek-v3 Model to Serverless Text Pricing at $0.90/1M Tokens" (Dec 2024). Fireworks has been tracked since 2024-11-17.

In the same window Figma and Adobe also changed their Marketing & Content pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.