Deepseek makes 75 percent discount on V4 Pro permanent, pricing output tokens 34.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5

THE DECODER · May 23, 2026

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•Deepseek announced it has made permanent a 75 percent discount on its flagship model Deepseek V4 Pro, which was originally set to expire on May 31, 2026. Under the permanent pricing, one million input tokens cost $0.435 and one million output tokens cost $0.87.
•Deepseek V4 Pro is about 11.5 times cheaper than GPT-5.5 on standard input pricing ($5.00 per million tokens) and about 34.5 times cheaper on output ($30.00 per million tokens). Both Deepseek models offer a one million token context window and support OpenAI and Anthropic API formats.
•The article notes that per-token pricing alone does not determine real cost: token consumption per task matters equally. Deepseek V4 trails GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 in raw performance, but the price gap is especially significant for agentic AI systems (AI that autonomously executes multiple steps) that use substantially more tokens than standard chatbots.

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