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April 27, 2026
DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75%
The promotional discount runs until 5 May 2026. Even at full price, V4-Pro already undercuts GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on per-token costs.
TL;DR
- DeepSeek offers a 75% discount on its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model until May 5, 2026.
- Input cache hit prices across its entire API suite are cut to one-tenth of previous levels.
- At full price, DeepSeek-V4-Pro is already cheaper per token than GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.7.
- The V4-Pro model has 1.6 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters per task, making it the largest open-weight model available.
- The pricing strategy aims to reduce barriers for developers, startups, and small enterprises.
- V4-Pro integrates with common agentic coding frameworks like Claude Code and OpenClaw.
- The model is trained and optimized for Huawei's Ascend 950 chips and Cambricon hardware, not Nvidia GPUs.
- This move comes amidst US government accusations of foreign entities distilling AI models.
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