Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5
Deepseek is making the 75 percent discount on its top model V4-Pro permanent. At $0.435 per million input tokens, it's at least 11.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5 and over 34 times cheaper on output. For token-hungry agentic systems, this kind of pricing could squeeze Western providers hard.
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Key points
- Deepseek's 75% discount on V4-Pro is now permanent.
- Input token price is $0.435 per million, 11.5x cheaper than GPT-5.5.
- Output token price is over 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5.
- Aggressive pricing could pressure Western AI providers in agentic systems.
Why it matters
This matters because deepseek's 75% discount on V4-Pro is now permanent.
Technical impact
May affect model selection, inference cost, product capability, and evaluation benchmarks.
Deepseek is making the 75 percent discount on its top model V4-Pro permanent. At $0.435 per million input tokens, it's at least 11.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5 and over 34 times cheaper on output. For token-hungry agentic systems, this kind of pricing could squeeze Western providers hard.
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