Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek said it will permanently maintain steep discounts on its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model API pricing, pushing inference costs to new industry lows and escalating a price war across the global AI sector.

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

36氪获悉,据DeepSeek官微,DeepSeek-V4-Pro模型API价格将于2026年5月31日结束2.5折优惠活动后,正式调整为原定价的1/4。

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DeepSeek did not disclose whether the permanent price cut was due to increased supply of Huawei's Ascend 950 chips, which it used to maximize V4's performance.