DeepSeek Cuts V4-Pro Prices by 75%
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April 27, 2026 – 7:25 am
DeepSeek is offering a 75% discount on its newly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to developers until May 5, 2026, and has slashed the price of input cache hits across its entire API suite to one-tenth of previous levels, effective immediately.
The promotional discount follows DeepSeek’s earlier challenge to US AI providers’ pricing strategies, announced in a post on X.
At full price, before the discount, DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $0.145 per million input tokens and $3.48 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on a per-token basis.
The discount brings the input price down to approximately $0.036 per million tokens. The Flash variant, V4’s smaller model, costs $0.14 per million input tokens at full price.
This move intensifies competition and aims to lower barriers for developers switching from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google APIs to DeepSeek, especially those with cost as their primary constraint.
Key Highlights:
- Open-source availability: DeepSeek removes the model access barrier.
- Aggressive API pricing: Removes cost barriers for production deployment.
- 1 million-token context window: Viable for enterprise use cases with large codebases or long documents.
- Integration with popular agentic coding frameworks like Claude Code, OpenClaw, and OpenCode.
Akshar Keremane, co-founder of AI startup O-Health, notes that DeepSeek’s combination of pricing, open-source availability, and the 1 million-token context window lowers barriers for "developers, startups, and small enterprises."