DeepSeek: pricing and development
The cheapest frontier tier, tracked as it moves — endpoint retirements, benchmark claims, and the shift to charging by the clock.
The redirect to V4.1 Flash was due at noon on 14 September. DeepSeek now says V4 Pro stays, at the same price. A better model behind the same name can still break things.
11 Sep 2026 DeepSeek Hired Bankers. That Is Not the Same as Filing to List.Four underwriters for a STAR Market float, a pre-IPO round near $74.5bn, and no prospectus. The reports do not agree on whether the listing lands this year or in 2027.
27 Aug 2026 DeepSeek Is Raising $8bn Two Months After Its First Outside MoneyClose to $8bn at around 500bn yuan, up about 11 per cent from June, with a Shanghai listing targeted for 2027. A battery maker is in the round, and the valuation gap with Anthropic...
14 Aug 2026 Everyone Is Cutting Except DeepSeek — and It Now Charges by the ClockDeepSeek moves V4 to peak and off-peak rates while Google, OpenAI and Anthropic cut. The 1,100 per cent lands on the cheapest token category - and the peak window falls squarely in...
26 Jul 2026 DeepSeek Retired Its Legacy Endpoints — the Migration Is Free, the Headline Price Is NotBoth retired model names resolved to V4-Flash, so a like-for-like migration costs nothing. The number worth checking is the sub-cent cache-hit rate, 50 times below what most worklo...
18 May 2026 DeepSeek V4-Pro Takes the Cost-Performance Crown on SWE-bench at 80.6% — 34x Cheaper Output Than GPT-5.5DeepSeek's new V4-Pro lands at 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified for $0.87 per million output tokens — opening a gap on cost-per-correct-fix that frontier labs will be forced to answer.