DeepSeek Makes V4-Pro API Price Cut Permanent at One-Quarter of Original Rate

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DeepSeek said its V4-Pro API will remain priced at one-quarter of the original rate after a temporary discount ends on May 31, effectively making the promotional pricing permanent. Under the revised pricing, input tokens will cost 3 yuan per million and output tokens 6 yuan per million.

From the sources (4 posts)

@teortaxestex

…or maybe not

@teortaxestex

So… how long did it even work at "original price"? 3 days? 2? "promotional discount ends with the new Official Full Price equal to the discount price". Only at DeepSeek.

@poezhao0605

DeepSeek announced V4-Pro API prices will permanently drop to 1/4 of original pricing after the current promotion ends May 31. This tracks. DeepSeek built V4 around domestic hardware constraints from the start. The technical report even fl

@scaling01

DeepSeek is the only lab that is still trying to make intelligence too cheap to meter

Market impact

28 small

NVDA MSFT GOOGL SOXX

Why it matters: DeepSeek making a 75% inference-price cut permanent pushes the AI cost curve down further, modestly pressuring closed-lab margins (OpenAI/Anthropic proxies MSFT/GOOGL) and the AI-capex return case (NVDA/SOXX), but it is a pricing action, not a frontier-capability or open-weight release.

At publish time: Headline names a permanent 4x price cut on an AI inference API (input 3 yuan / output 6 yuan per million tokens) — a concrete, compounding cost-curve signal at publish time.

model confidence: medium

What happened next

1–2 weeks later

mixed moved: flat

Price-war thesis reinforced by follow-ups (Xiaomi cut MiMo up to 99%), but small pricing action; no clean NVDA/MSFT/GOOGL move attributable, mega-caps driven by other factors.

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