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DeepSeek announced that the API price for its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model will officially be adjusted to one-quarter of its original price. Photo: VCG
DeepSeek Cuts Flagship AI Model Prices by 75% as Funding Round Looms
The Chinese startup lowered API prices for its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to a fraction of OpenAI’s rates, intensifying the global AI pricing war as it seeks fresh capital at a reported 300 billion yuan valuation
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DeepSeek permanently cut V4-Pro API pricing by 75% to $0.44/million tokens — one-tenth of GPT-5.5's rate — as it pursues a first external funding round at a $44B valuation. For teams evaluating foundation model costs, this resets the baseline: open-weight at this price point makes proprietary API pricing structurally harder to justify for high-volume inference workloads.
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