Reuters: DeepSeek just made its V4-Pro price cut permanent, pushing the price down to 25% of its original API cost.
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-24
DeepSeek has permanently cut its V4-Pro API price to 25% of the original cost, with timing suggesting improved supply of Huawei Ascend 950 chips is driving down China's AI infrastructure cost curve.
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- DeepSeek has made its V4-Pro API price cut permanent, reducing the price to 25% of its original level.
- DeepSeek has not officially confirmed that improved Huawei Ascend 950 chip supply is responsible for the permanent cut.
- The timing of the price reduction suggests China's domestic AI hardware stack is enabling a downward cost curve.
- This move increases competitive pricing pressure on other LLM API providers globally.
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DeepSeek just made its V4-Pro price cut permanent, pushing the price down to 25% of its original API cost.
DeepSeek has not confirmed that better Ascend 950 supply caused the permanent cut, but the timing points to a cost curve moving downward as China's AI stack shifts.