{"id":19324,"date":"2026-04-28T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:14:33","slug":"chinas-deepseek-prices-new-v4-ai-model-at-97-below-openais-gpt-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19324\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s DeepSeek prices new V4 AI model at 97% below OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">DeepSeek has slashed prices on its artificial intelligence models, including its latest V4 which now costs 97 per cent less than OpenAI products, potentially triggering a price war in the highly competitive AI market.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">DeepSeek said on Sunday that it would reduce prices for \u201cinput cache hits\u201d \u2013 where previously processed context was reused \u2013 for application programming interface (API) users to one-tenth of the original level, bringing the minimum input cost down to about US$0.14 per million tokens.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">DeepSeek said the cuts were effective immediately and would be permanent.<\/p>\n<p>To promote the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3351419\/underwhelming-or-underrated-deepseek-v4-shows-impressive-gains?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new flagship model released on Friday,<\/a> the company offered an additional 75 per cent discount on the V4-Pro model through May 5, it said in a separate announcement on Saturday. The V4 family currently consists of the Pro and Flash variants, with the V4-Pro positioned as the company\u2019s most advanced offering to date.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As a result, DeepSeek-V4-Pro is currently as cheap as US$0.0036 per million input tokens, a fraction of the cost of its American rivals. In comparison, OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5 charges US$0.5 per million cached input tokens. Given that a conversation consists of input and output, and that input is typically three times longer than output, the cost per conversation on GPT-5.5 is 32 times that of DeepSeek-V4.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DeepSeek said the cuts were effective immediately and would be a permanent price adjustment. Photo: DigiTimes\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ac286608-9a6e-4ee3-9ec8-8cba5e43fa13_90ab99f0.jpg\" title=\"DeepSeek said the cuts were effective immediately and would be a permanent price adjustment. Photo: DigiTimes\"\/>DeepSeek said the cuts were effective immediately and would be a permanent price adjustment. Photo: DigiTimesDeepSeek\u2019s aggressive pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China\u2019s foundational model market, following recent releases from high-profile start-ups \u2013 including Kimi K2.6 and Zhipu GLM-5.1 \u2013 each of which <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3349422\/chinas-zhipu-ai-open-sources-flagship-model-raises-prices-narrow-gap-us-rivals?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raised prices on their latest flagship versions.<\/a> DeepSeek V4 is one of the few models to break the trend by significantly lowering its prices, triggering speculation that the move might ignite further price competition in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeepSeek has slashed prices on its artificial intelligence models, including its latest V4 which now costs 97 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13026,8540,934,13723,182,6010,11387,1296,13720,933,13721,157,5013,13724,13722],"class_list":{"0":"post-19324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-ai-market","9":"tag-api","10":"tag-artificial-analysis","11":"tag-ascend-ecosystem","12":"tag-claude","13":"tag-deepseek","14":"tag-deepseek-v4","15":"tag-goldman-sachs","16":"tag-hu-yanping","17":"tag-huawei-technologies","18":"tag-national-business-daily","19":"tag-openai","20":"tag-openrouter","21":"tag-shanghai-university-of-finance-and-economics","22":"tag-zhipu-glm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}