DeepSeek never said it was permanent in their pricing materials, the article writer did. They are just taking the current expiration date off an existing discount. It’s absolutely a shot across the bow at Claude, OpenAI, et al., but the author was click-baiting, as is tradition.
The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC.
Matter of Interpretation. It’s not a time-limited discount anymore so it’s “permanent” in that sense, but there’s no commitment to not again raise the price later.
DeepSeek never said it was permanent in their pricing materials, the article writer did. They are just taking the current expiration date off an existing discount. It’s absolutely a shot across the bow at Claude, OpenAI, et al., but the author was click-baiting, as is tradition.
No?
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
Matter of Interpretation. It’s not a time-limited discount anymore so it’s “permanent” in that sense, but there’s no commitment to not again raise the price later.