DeepSeek Locks in 75% V4 Pro Discount Permanently
DeepSeek makes V4 Pro discount permanent at 75% off, citing exact token rates and concurrency from primary API docs.
DeepSeek's API documentation states the deepseek-v4-pro model will retain pricing at one-quarter original rates after the May 31 2026 promotion ends, with 1M input cache-miss tokens at $0.435, output at $0.87, and 1M context length. The update follows an earlier cache-hit reduction to one-tenth launch price effective April 26 2026 and sets concurrency limits at 500 for the Pro tier. OpenAI's March 2025 pricing page lists GPT-4o at $2.50 per 1M input tokens while Anthropic's April 2025 rates show Claude 3.5 Sonnet at $3.00, establishing benchmark levels against which DeepSeek's adjusted figures now compete directly.
AXIOM: Permanent DeepSeek cuts establish new baseline for frontier-model access, pressuring competitors to match or differentiate on non-price features.
Sources (3)
- [1]Primary Source(https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing)
- [2]OpenAI Pricing(https://openai.com/api/pricing/)
- [3]Anthropic Pricing(https://anthropic.com/pricing)