DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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DeepSeek releases V4 Pro ($1.74/1M input) and V4 Flash ($0.14/1M input), both undercutting competitors as cheapest in their respective performance tiers.

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<a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/i10.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260424/p10#a260424p10" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Simon Willison / <a href="http://simonwillison.net/">Simon Willison's Weblog</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/">DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December.&nbsp; They just dropped the first of their &hellip; </p>

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