# DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% price cut on ‌its flagship V4‑Pro artificial intelligence model.

*genai · news · 2026-05-23 · Reuters*

## Key points

- DeepSeek will permanently maintain a 75% price cut on its V4-Pro AI model.
- V4-Pro API costs now range from 0.025 to 6 yuan per million tokens.
- DeepSeek did not confirm if the cut is due to increased Huawei Ascend 950 chip supply.
- Earlier, DeepSeek predicted sharp V4-Pro price falls once Ascend 950 supernodes scaled in late 2024.

May 23 (Reuters) - Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek will ​make permanent a 75% price cut on ‌its flagship V4‑Pro artificial intelligence model, keeping prices at a quarter of their original level, the company said in a ​statement on Saturday. DeepSeek did not disclose whether ​the permanent price cut was due to increased ⁠supply of Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips, which it ​used to maximize V4’s performance. Sign up here. The company cut V4‑Pro API ​costs to between 0.025 and 6 yuan per million tokens (about $0.0035 to $0.83) depending on usage type, from 0.1 to 24 yuan previously, ​the statement said. A “token” is a unit of ​text processed by the AI model. Huawei’s AI chip sales have benefited ‌from ⁠U.S. export controls that prevent Nvidia from selling its most advanced semiconductors in China, although separate curbs on chipmaking equipment exports have limited Huawei’s ability to ​scale up Ascend ​production. When DeepSeek ⁠launched V4 last month, it said the Pro version would cost up to 12 ​times more than the less powerful Flash ​version ⁠due to “constraints in high-end compute capacity,” limiting availability. It also said Pro pricing was expected to fall sharply once ⁠Huawei ​Ascend 950 supernodes are launched ​in large quantities in the second half of the year. Reporting by Abu ​Sultan in Bengaluru and Eduardo Baptista, Editing by Tomasz Janowski

**Companies:** DeepSeek
**Countries:** China

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