Pricing & policy

DeepSeek-V4-Pro’s 75% discount has conflicting end-date claims

Multiple reports support a 75% API price reduction for DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Earlier messaging put the end of the promotion at May 31, 2026, while a later DeepSeek post indicates the discount may have become permanent.

8/3/2026, 12:14:50 AM94% VERIFIED

DeepSeek-V4-Pro’s API pricing announcement is being described in two different ways. The candidate post says a 75% discount was extended from an earlier May 5 deadline to May 31, 2026, at 15:59 UTC. A later post attributed to DeepSeek, however, says the company is making the discount permanent.

Independent technology reports broadly support the size of the reduction and describe substantially lower input and output rates. They also report that cache-hit input pricing across the API lineup was cut to one-tenth of its previous level.

The “extended through May 31” and “permanent” descriptions are materially different, so the final policy status should be treated as unresolved in this item. Developers should verify the current pricing table and terms in DeepSeek’s official API documentation before making production or budgeting decisions.

Source evidence

DeepSeek Makes 75% V4-Pro Price Cut Permanent — Enterprise DNAenterprisedna.co · supporting

DeepSeek Makes 75% V4-Pro Price Cut Permanent If your business is running AI agents in production, or seriously evaluating which AI providers to put in your stack, today is a date worth noting. DeepSeek has made its 75% price reduction for the V4-Pro model permanent, effective May 31, 2026. What began as a promotional discount is now the standard pricing. The numbers are significant. DeepSeek-V4-Pro now sits at $0.435 per million uncached input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, down from the original $1.74 and $3.48. That’s not a rounding error. For businesses running agentic workflows at any meaningful scale, these figures change the cost conversation entirely. [...] And that’s before accounting for the cache hit change. Since April 26, DeepSeek has also cut input cache hit prices across its entire API suite to one-tenth of their original levels. For production agentic applications, where repeated or structurally similar requests are the norm rather than the exception, thi

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanentnews.ycombinator.com · supporting

| | | | --- | | | lot-xcvb 69 days ago | root | parent | next (javascript:void(0)) An API is a local model? "(3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC." | "(3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC." "(3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC." [...] | | | | --- | | Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | <ask> | <show> | <jobs> | <submit> | login | | | | | --- | | | DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (deepseek.com) | | | | 621 points by Tiberium 71 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 549 comments | | | | > (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the origi

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.thenextweb.com · supporting

Skip to content Artificial Intelligence # DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated. DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated. #### TL;DR DeepSeek permanently cut V4 Pro prices by 75%, to $0.87 per million output tokens. It undercuts GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude. DeepSeek has made permanent the 75% price discount on its flagship V4 Pro model. The promotion was originally scheduled to expire on 31 May. The Chinese AI startup’s pricing now ranges from $0.003625 to $0.87 per million tokens, down from $0.0145 to $3.48. The price points are striking in context. OpenAI’s GPT-5 charges $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 is priced at $5 input and $25 output. [...] DeepSeek V4 Pro supports a one-million-token context window at the new pricing. That makes it competitive for document analysis, legal review, and codebase comprehension. These are the long-context applicat

DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its ...thenextweb.com · supporting

DeepSeek announced on Monday that it is offering a 75% discount on its newly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to developers until 5 May 2026, and is simultaneously cutting the price of input cache hits across its entire API suite to one-tenth of previous levels, effective immediately. The discount was announced in a post on X. The move intensifies a pricing competition with US AI providers that DeepSeek first triggered in January 2025 with its R1 model, which claimed frontier-level reasoning performance at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI products. [...] Skip to content This article was published on April 27, 2026 Artificial Intelligence # DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth DeepSeek cuts V4-Pro prices by 75% and slashes cache costs across its entire API to a tenth 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 c

DeepSeek's steep V4-Pro price cut escalates AI pricing warinfoworld.com · supporting

Credit: Shutterstock Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has announced a steep price cut for its recently launched flagship AI model, V4-Pro. The company has reduced pricing for the model by 75%, just a month after unveiling the V4 generation, which includes V4 Pro and V4 Flash. Earlier, usage costs ranged from $0.0145 for one million tokens (cache hit) to $3.48 for one million output tokens. Following the revision, the V4 Pro will now cost starting at $0.003625 per million tokens and going up to $0.87 per million tokens, respectively. The Deepseek V4 Pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC, said the company. [...] 1. Analytics 2. Artificial Intelligence 3. Careers 4. Cloud Computing 5. Data Management 6. Databases 7. Development Tools 8. Devops 9. Emerging Technology 10. Enterprise Buyer’s Guides 11. Generative AI 12. IT Leadership 13. Java 14. JavaScript 15. Microsoft .NET 16. Open Source 1

DeepSeek on X: "We are making our discount permanent! 🎉 Enjoy building with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and bring your innovative ideas to life! 🚀 https://t.co/V8atbTaogH" / Xx.com · supporting

Log inSign up ## Post user avatar DeepSeek @deepseek\_ai We are making our discount permanent! 🎉 Enjoy building with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and bring your innovative ideas to life! 🚀 user avatar DeepSeek @deepseek\_ai Apr 29 The DeepSeek-V4-Pro discount has been extended until May 31, 2026, 15:59 UTC! 4:01 PM · May 22, 20266.9MViews user avatar lownoise26 @almostme2696 May 22 China can have all my data thank you guys I welcome our new Chinese overlords with open arms 83K user avatar Mohamed @AIVibecode May 22