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China’s DeepSeek prices new V4 AI model at 97% below OpenAI’s GPT-5.5

South China Morning Post · · 183 words · By Minxiao Chang
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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3351595/chinas-deepseek-prices-new…

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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“China’s DeepSeek prices new V4 AI model at 97% below OpenAI’s GPT-5.5”
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Multiple web search results report that DeepSeek priced its V4 model significantly lower than OpenAI's GPT-5.5. One source explicitly states the 97% difference, and others discuss the low pricing relative to American rivals.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(chatbot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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“DeepSeek has slashed prices on its artificial intelligence models, including its latest V4 which now costs 97 per cent less than OpenAI products”
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The claim that DeepSeek reduced prices on its V4 model by 97% compared to OpenAI products is supported by multiple web search results detailing DeepSeek's cost reductions relative to OpenAI's pricing structure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(chatbot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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“DeepSeek said on Sunday that it would reduce prices for “input cache hits” – where previously processed context was reused – 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.”
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Two distinct web search results confirm that DeepSeek reduced prices for 'input cache hits' to one-tenth of the original level, and one source specifies the resulting minimum input cost near US$0.14 per million tokens.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) is a type of large language model (LLM) that is widely used in generative artificial intelligence chatbots. GPTs are based on a deep learning architecture ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. Many Qwen models are distributed under the free and open-sou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwen
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“DeepSeek said the cuts were effective immediately and would be permanent.”
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Only one web search result mentions DeepSeek's price cuts being effective immediately and permanent. No other independent sources corroborate the permanence of the cuts.
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude, in response to DeepSeek's direct teasing in the tech report, is preparing a structured retort. In the report, DeepSeek mentioned that Claude "loves bullet points too much."The skills encompass…
https://irma-news.com/article/2613
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web search NEUTRAL — Shortly after DeepSeek revealed the details of its latest model, Ghodsi of Databricks says customers began asking whether they could use it as well as DeepSeek’s underlying techniques to cut costs at …
https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-executives-reaction-sil…
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web search NEUTRAL — Subscribe to our newsletterCalls DeepSeek "state-subsidized" and "state-controlled"OpenAI would like to see the removal of "overly burdensome state laws"Stock prices for companies heavily invested in …
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/…
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“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.”
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Two separate web search results provide specific, low cost figures for DeepSeek-V4-Pro, including one citing $0.0036 per million input tokens, confirming the low cost relative to rivals.
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web search NEUTRAL — 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’s GPT-5.5 charges US$0.5 per million cach…
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3351595/chinas…
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web search NEUTRAL — Notably, DeepSeek V4 is much more affordable than any frontier model available today. The smaller V4 Flash model costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, undercutting …
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-previews-new-ai-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — per million tokens. Output Cost $0.87.DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.44 per 1M input tokens and $0.87 per 1M output tokens.
https://developer.puter.com/ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro/
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“In comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 charges US$0.5 per million cached input tokens.”
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Two different web search results cite OpenAI's GPT-5.5 pricing, with one specifically mentioning $0.5 per million cached input tokens, and another citing general GPT-5.5 pricing structures.
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore OpenAI API pricing for GPT-5.4, multimodal models, and tools. Compare token costs, realtime, image, and video pricing, plus service tiers.
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI charges based on the total tokens processed. Input tokens (your prompt) and output tokens (the model's response) are billed at different rates, with output tokens typically costing 3x to 6x mor…
https://www.chatbase.co/blog/chatgpt-api
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic lists Opus 4.7 at $5 input and $25 output per million tokens; OpenAI lists GPT-5.5 API pricing as coming soon at $5 input and $30 output. Cached-input behavior, batch discounts, US-only infe…
https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/gpt-5-5-vs-claude-opus-4-7
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“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.”
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Multiple web search results compare the cost ratios between DeepSeek-V4 and GPT-5.5, with several sources citing ratios around one-sixth or one-seventh, which supports the general claim of a significant cost difference based on input/output ratios.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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web search NEUTRAL — DeepSeek said on Sunday that it would reduce prices for “input cache hits” – where previously processed context was reused – for application programming interface (API) users to one-tenth of the origi…
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3351595/chinas…
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