DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

DeepSeek has announced that the 75% discount on its V4 Pro model API pricing will become permanent after the promotion ends on May 31, 2026, reducing the price to one-quarter of the original. Additionally, the input cache hit price for all models has been reduced to one-tenth of the launch price, effective April 26, 2026. The company also noted that the model names "deepseek-chat" and "deepseek-reasoner" will be deprecated in the future, corresponding to the non-thinking and thinking modes of deepseek-v4-flash.

Models & Pricing The prices listed below are in units of per 1M tokens. A token, the smallest unit of text that the model recognizes, can be a word, a number, or even a punctuation mark. We will bill based on the total number of input and output tokens by the model. Model Details 1 The model names deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner will be deprecated in the future. For compatibility, they correspond to the non-thinking mode and thinking mode of deepseek-v4-flash , respectively. 2 For all models, the input cache hit price has been reduced to 1/10 of the launch price. This price adjustment takes effect from 2026/4/26 12:15 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. 4 For more details on concurrency limits, please refer to Rate Limit & Isolation Deduction Rules The expense = number of tokens × price. The corresponding fees will be directly deducted from your topped-up balance or granted balance, with a preference for using the granted balance first when both balances are available. Product prices may vary and DeepSeek reserves the right to adjust them. We recommend topping up based on your actual usage and regularly checking this page for the most recent pricing information.