Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5

Deepseek's permanent price cut turns China's AI strategy into a blunt price war with Western labs.

Deepseek has made the 75 percent discount on its flagship model, Deepseek V4 Pro, permanent, the company announced on X. The promotion was originally set to expire on May 31, 2026.

Under the permanent discount, one million input tokens without cache cost just $0.435, while one million output tokens cost $0.87. Cache hits push the input price even lower. By comparison, GPT 5.5 charges $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, while Opus 4.7 sits at $5 for input and $25 for output.

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