{"id":254103,"date":"2026-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-for-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:00:23","slug":"deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-for-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-for-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354668\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-24 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese artificial intelligence<\/span> start-up DeepSeek<\/span>\u2019s latest flagship model has been ranked as one of the world\u2019s best on an intelligence-per-dollar basis, far exceeding those from US heavyweights OpenAI and Anthropic in cost-efficiency after a 75 per cent promotional price cut was made permanent.The Hangzhou-based start-up announced the permanent price cut for its V4 Pro model on Saturday, a month after it released the long-awaited V4 generation<\/span>, which comprises the flagship V4 Pro model and its lighter variant, V4 Flash.<\/p>\n

The move reflects how Chinese companies are competing in the global AI race through a different approach from their US counterparts, which offer cutting-edge model capabilities at premium prices.<\/p>\n

According to third-party benchmark firm Artificial Analysis, the price cut places V4 Pro at the global frontier for cost-efficiency, based on an assessment of the amount of \u201cintelligence\u201d one can extract per dollar.<\/p>\n

Amid a global compute supply crunch that has pushed up prices for the most advanced models, the bang-for-the-buck method of comparing different AI models \u2013 as opposed to ranking their raw intelligence \u2013 has gained popularity in recent months.<\/p>\n

DeepSeek\u2019s official application programming interface (API) price for V4 Pro is now as low as US$0.0036 per 1 million cached input tokens, and US$0.87 per 1 million output tokens.<\/p>\n

This means that the model requires US$268 to run Artificial Analysis\u2019 Intelligence Index benchmark tests, a composite benchmark combining several performance metrics. OpenAI<\/span> and Anthropic<\/span>\u2019s latest flagship models, GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7, cost about 12 and 19 times more, respectively, to perform the same task.
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