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DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro API pricing by 75% as outside fundraising nears
DeepSeek made a 75% cut to the API price of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, setting the rate at 3 yuan (about AED 1.53) or $0.44 (about AED 1.61) per million tokens. The lower price sits far below the roughly $5 (about AED 18.35) charged for OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and the $0.95 (about AED 3.49) charged by Kimi. DeepSeek is preparing for its first outside capital raise at a reported $44 billion valuation while V4-Pro remains a large open-weight model ranked ninth globally by VALS AI.
