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DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut

South China Morning Post · · 160 words · By Vincent Chow
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“DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that DeepSeek is making a 75% price cut on the V4 Pro model permanent. While the 'bang-for-buck ranking' is a qualitative summary of the price cut's effect, the core factual event (75% permanent price cut) is reported by multiple sources.
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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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“Model ranks among world’s best for intelligence per dollar thanks to now permanent price cut, according to Artificial Analysis”
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Web search results explicitly mention the 'Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0' and the permanent 75% price cut for V4 Pro, linking the model's cost-efficiency to this specific analysis firm.
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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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“According to third-party benchmark firm Artificial Analysis, the price cut places V4 Pro at the global frontier for cost-efficiency, based on an assessment of the amount of “intelligence” one can extract per dollar.”
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Evidence from Artificial Analysis's own index shows DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) with a high intelligence score (52), and TokenMix's analysis confirms that DeepSeek's pricing strategy places it at the frontier of cost-efficiency compared to Western rivals.
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web search NEUTRAL — Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better. GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 60.DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max): 52. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: 36.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/
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web search NEUTRAL — TokenMix's quarterly pricing analysis found that per-token costs for frontier models dropped 60 to 80 percent across every major provider between early 2025 and April 2026, driven largely by DeepSeek'…
https://ai-bossblog.com/blog/2026-04-26-deepseek-v4-gpt-55-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro with Transformers: # Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline.LM Studio, or any compatible app. DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Effici…
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
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“DeepSeek’s official application programming interface (API) price for V4 Pro is now as low as US$0.0036 per 1 million cached input tokens, and US$0.87 per 1 million output tokens.”
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There is a contradiction in the specific pricing for input tokens. The claim states $0.0036 per 1 million cached input tokens. However, the TokenMix blog lists $0.435 per million tokens, and LaoZhang AI Blog lists $0.145 for cache-hit input and $0.435 for cache-miss input. The output token price of $0.87 is consistently corroborated across multiple sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — 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 tota…
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
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web search NEUTRAL — DeepSeek V4-Pro is the cheapest frontier-tier LLM API in 2026 at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens (input/output).DeepSeek excluded by data residency. Pricing Across Tiers (Verified 2026-05-23). All num…
https://tokenmix.ai/blog/cheapest-frontier-llm-api-cost-per-…
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web search NEUTRAL — DeepSeek docs list discount pricing through 2026-05-31: $0.145 cache-hit input, $0.435 cache-miss input, $0.87 output per million tokens. Boundary to keep visible.
https://blog.laozhang.ai/en/posts/deepseek-v4-pro-vs-claude-…
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