Deepseek makes its 75 percent discount permanent, pricing output tokens at least 34x below GPT-5.5

In three linesDeepSeek makes its 75% discount on V4-Pro permanent: $0.435 per million input tokens, 11.5× cheaper than GPT-4.5 on input, 34× cheaper on output. This aggressive pricing could squeeze Western providers, especially for agentic systems.

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