Friday, 14 August, 2026
DeepSeek Swaps Bargain Strategy for Premium Pricing with V4 Pro
By TechShots Studio
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek formally launched its V4 Pro model, pricing it up to 14 times higher than its lightweight V4 Flash tier. Costing $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 for output tokens, the premium release aims to monetize enhanced agentic performance and benchmark capabilities as DeepSeek scales up compute, hiring, and chip development efforts.