Deepseek is making the 75 percent discount on its top model V4-Pro permanent. At $0.435 per million input tokens, it's at least 11.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5 and over 34 times cheaper on output. For token-hungry agentic systems, this kind of pricing could squeeze Western providers hard.

DeepSeek made its V4-Pro 75% price cut permanent on May 22. The conventional read: "they got cheaper...

DeepSeek permanently reduces its flagship AI model pricing by 75%, enhancing competitiveness in the crowded AI market.