DeepSeek Slashes AI Model Prices 75%

DeepSeek announced a 75% discount on its new DeepSeek‑V4‑Pro model, effective until May 5 2026, 15:59 UTC.
Input cost for cache misses falls to $0.435 from $1.74; cache‑hit input cost drops to $0.03625 from $0.145.
Output pricing reduced to $0.87 versus $3.48 previously, and all input‑cache‑hit fees cut to one‑tenth across platforms.
The pricing cut aims to intensify competition with US AI firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.