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DeepSeek's pricing undercuts U.S. models by 10-34x, reshaping AI economics
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.435 per million input tokens versus OpenAI's $5.00, forcing a reckoning with AI pricing assumptions that Wall Street has built into valuations.
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DeepSeek released V4 Pro with pricing that fundamentally challenges the cost structure of American AI vendors. The model's input tokens cost $0.435 per million and output tokens $0.87 per million—a pricing floor that undercuts OpenAI's GPT-5.5 by 11.5x on input and 34.5x on output, and Claude Opus b...
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