DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper...
DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper hardware." The real story is more interesting — and it's about a gap that's not closing fast enough.
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Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5
DeepSeek permanently cuts API prices
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
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DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% price cut on its flagship V4-Pro artificial intelligence model
Everyone talks about model pricing. Nobody shows real bills. Here's mine: 3,452,248,487 tokens....
