DeepSeek V4 Pro AI Model Price Cut Becomes Permanent
TL;DR. DeepSeek made the 75% price cut for its V4 Pro model permanent, lowering inference costs for enterprise AI workloads. - DeepSeek V4 Pro now costs $0.435/M input and $0.87/M output tokens for good. - The model scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified and uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. - This pricing strategy is expected to drive significant savings for high-volume AI operations.
- DeepSeek permanently reduced the price of its V4 Pro model by 75%.
- New rates are $0.435/M input and $0.87/M output tokens.
- The model employs a Mixture-of-Experts architecture (1.6T parameters, 49B active per pass).
- DeepSeek V4 Pro achieves 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified.
- This move significantly lowers costs for enterprise AI applications compared to alternatives.
Sources
- DeepSeek Slashes AI Costs to Cents — businessanalytics.substack.com