DeepSeek Cuts V4-Pro Prices by 75%, Slashes API Cache Costs to One-Tenth

Gate News message, April 27 — DeepSeek announced a 75% discount on its new V4-Pro model for developers and reduced input cache hit prices across its API lineup to one-tenth of previous levels.

The V4 model, released on April 25 in Pro and Flash versions, has been optimized for Huawei's Ascend processors. DeepSeek said V4-Pro outperforms other open-source models on world-knowledge benchmarks and ranks second only to Google's closed-source Gemini-Pro-3.1. The V4 family is designed specifically for AI agents handling complex tasks beyond chatbot capabilities.

V4-Pro API costs already undercut major Western competitors, priced at $3.48 per million output tokens compared to $30 for OpenAI's GPT-4.5. V4-Flash pricing stands at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, potentially enabling cost-effective applications such as reviewing entire codebases or regulatory documents in single requests.