China’s DeepSeek to make permanent 75% price cut on flagship V4‑Pro AI model
Key takeaways
- Deep Seek did not disclose whether the permanent price cut was due to increased supply of Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips, which it used to maximize V4’s performance.
- The company cut V4‑Pro API costs to between 0.025 and 6 yuan per million tokens (about $0.0035 to $0.83) depending on usage type, from 0.1 to 24 yuan previously, the statement said.
- When DeepSeek launched V4 last month, it said the Pro version would cost up to 12 times more than the less powerful Flash version due to “constraints in high-end compute capacity,” limiting availability.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Chinese artificial intelligence startup Deep Seek will make permanent a 75% price cut on its flagship V4‑Pro artificial intelligence model, keeping prices at a quarter of their original level, the company said in a statement on Saturday.
Deep Seek did not disclose whether the permanent price cut was due to increased supply of Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips, which it used to maximize V4’s performance.
The company cut V4‑Pro API costs to between 0.025 and 6 yuan per million tokens (about $0.0035 to $0.83) depending on usage type, from 0.1 to 24 yuan previously, the statement said. A “token” is a unit of text processed by the AI model.