DeepSeek Cuts Flagship AI Model Prices by 75% as Funding Round Looms

DeepSeek Cuts Flagship AI Model Prices by 75% as Funding Round Looms

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.