# DeepSeek has permanently cut the application programming interface (API) price of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model by 75%.

*genai, business · news · 2026-05-25 · Caixin*

## Key points

- DeepSeek has permanently reduced its V4-Pro API pricing by 75%.
- The new V4-Pro API input price is 3 yuan ($0.44) per million tokens.
- This price is less than one-tenth of OpenAI GPT-5.5's $5 per million tokens.
- The new pricing is also less than half the $0.95 charged by Chinese rival Kimi.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has permanently cut the application programming interface (API) price of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model by 75%, escalating competition with both domestic and overseas rivals. The company said on May 22 that a temporary promotional discount for developers would become its standard pricing tier. The move lowers the cache-miss input cost for the V4-Pro model to 3 yuan ($0.44) per million tokens, less than one-tenth of the roughly $5 charged for OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and well below the $0.95 charged by Chinese rival Kimi.

**Countries:** China

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