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

*genai · news · 2026-05-24 · The Indian Express*

## 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, down from 0.1–24 yuan.
- DeepSeek did not clarify if the price cut is linked to increased supply of Huawei Ascend 950 chips.
- The price reduction keeps V4-Pro access at a quarter of its original cost.

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. 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.

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

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