DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

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Post by Tiberium » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:59 PM 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.

https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173

Related ongoing thread:

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953 - May 2026 (135 comments)

DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 22, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

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Post by Havoc » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

Neat. I like DS for secondary checks on code. Sometimes spots things other models don't

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Post by Sphax » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

That is some insane value. I've been using GLM Coding Plan Max with GLM 5.1 for a while and i've tested DeepSeek V4 Pro maybe for 3 weeks now and I found it to be better than GLM 5.1 for complex coding tasks. I've used 65m tokens and with that price it cost me $1.5, that's really cheap.

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Post by bel8 » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

Great! I have been using DeepSeek 4 Flash high for everything lately.

First accessible model with useable 1 million context window for me.

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Post by kingjimmy » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

is this the Huawei chip difference?

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Post by belinder » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

Anyone using deepseek through a gateway (not sure if right term) so there's no data retention? At work we're going through a few hundred million tokens a day in our app (using anthropic models), and we're looking for something significantly cheaper

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Post by cold_harbor » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

their MLA architecture cuts KV cache by ~5-13x vs standard attention. that's why inference is actually cheaper to run, not just a price war to gain market share.

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Post by bel8 » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

belinder wrote: post #7

Anyone using deepseek through a gateway (not sure if right term) so there's no data retention? At work we're going through a few hundred million tokens a day in our app (using anthropic models), and we're looking for something significantly cheaper

opencode allegedly has contractual no-data-retention policies with their providers.

I recall reading about that in an issue or in their Discord server.

But I would contact them formally to verify that.

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Post by Reubend » Fri, May 22, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

Props to them. That makes DeepSeek v4 Pro extremely cheap compared to others, even in the same category. Look at these prices per million outputs tokens:

DeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87

Qwen 3.7 Max: $7.50

Grok 4.3: $2.50

GLM 1.5: $3.08

Opus 4.7: $25.00

GPT-5.5: $30.00