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DeepSeek: pricing and development
The cheapest frontier tier, tracked as it moves — endpoint retirements, benchmark claims, and the shift to charging by the clock.
14 Aug 2026 · Latest
Everyone Is Cutting Except DeepSeek — and It Now Charges by the Clock
DeepSeek 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.