DeepSeek's 'Promo' Price Sticks!
“Turns out, 'limited time offer' just meant 'this is the new market rate'.”
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What happened: DeepSeek's 75% promo discount for V4-Pro API is now permanent. New baseline rates are $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens. The new rates are roughly 8–9x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 for outputs. The model supports a 1M token context window, following DeepSeek's pattern of making promos permanent.
This Neural Toon is based on the story “DeepSeek just confirmed that their 75% promo discount for the V4-Pro API is actually becoming the permanent price”.
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Comic transcript
Panel 1 – Alex: DeepSeek's 75% API promo? PERMANENT!
Panel 1 – Priya: So, it was just the actual price all along?
Panel 1 – Fact: DeepSeek's 75% promo discount for V4-Pro API is now permanent.
Panel 2 – Alex: New rates: $0.435 input, $0.87 output per million tokens!
Panel 2 – Priya: That's... surprisingly specific. And low.
Panel 2 – Fact: New baseline rates are $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens.
Panel 3 – Alex: That's 8-9x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus!
Panel 3 – Priya: Finally, a number that isn't a valuation.
Panel 3 – Fact: The new rates are roughly 8–9x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 for outputs.
Panel 4 – Alex: 1M context window! They always pull this move!
Panel 4 – Priya: So their 'discount' is just... their business model?
Panel 4 – Fact: The model supports a 1M token context window, following DeepSeek's pattern of making promos permanent.
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