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DeepSeek's new V4 models are not just technically competitive — they are dramatically cheaper than every major frontier model available today. The smaller V4 Flash comes in at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, undercutting GPT-5.4 Nano, Gemini 3.1 Flash, GPT-5.4 Mini, and Claude Haiku 4.5. The larger V4 Pro is priced at $0.145 per million input tokens and $3.48 per million output tokens, also coming in below Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, and GPT-5.4.

For developers and businesses building on top of AI APIs, the pricing gap is significant. Getting near-frontier reasoning performance at a fraction of the cost of closed models has been DeepSeek's core value proposition since its R1 model shook the AI industry last year, and V4 continues that trend at an even larger scale. The mixture-of-experts architecture, which activates only a subset of parameters per task, is a key reason DeepSeek can keep inference costs this low without sacrificing too much performance.

The launch does come with some geopolitical baggage. It arrived a day after the US accused China of stealing American AI labs' intellectual property at an industrial scale, and DeepSeek itself has been accused by both Anthropic and OpenAI of distilling — essentially copying — their models. Whether that affects enterprise adoption remains to be seen, but on pure price-to-performance grounds, DeepSeek V4 is difficult to ignore.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/topic/18978/deepseek-v4-undercuts-every-major-ai-model-on-price-here-s-how-it-comparesRSS for NodeSun, 03 May 2026 19:38:53 GMTSat, 25 Apr 2026 10:14:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:54:18 GMT]]>I still run on free

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52190https://undeads.com/forum/post/52190Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:54:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:08:28 GMT]]>Everyone flexed benchmarks… DeepSeek flexed pricing.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52180https://undeads.com/forum/post/52180Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:08:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:05:00 GMT]]>AI becoming infrastructure, not luxury.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52171https://undeads.com/forum/post/52171Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:05:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:04:12 GMT]]>Cheap inference changes what products are viable.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52170https://undeads.com/forum/post/52170Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:04:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:01:24 GMT]]>Big question: performance consistency over time.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52161https://undeads.com/forum/post/52161Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:01:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:00:35 GMT]]>Enterprises will care less about brand, more about cost.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52160https://undeads.com/forum/post/52160Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:00:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:56:06 GMT]]>Feels like the “commoditization” phase starting.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52151https://undeads.com/forum/post/52151Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:56:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:55:20 GMT]]>Hard to justify premium APIs if this scales.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52150https://undeads.com/forum/post/52150Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:55:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:51:04 GMT]]>Competition finally hitting where it hurts — pricing.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52141https://undeads.com/forum/post/52141Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:51:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:13:05 GMT]]>If quality holds, margins across AI will compress.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52120https://undeads.com/forum/post/52120Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:13:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:10:27 GMT]]>MoE architecture doing heavy lifting here.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52111https://undeads.com/forum/post/52111Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:10:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:09:36 GMT]]>This is how disruption actually looks.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52110https://undeads.com/forum/post/52110Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:09:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:06:58 GMT]]>Near-frontier performance at budget pricing is wild.

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52101https://undeads.com/forum/post/52101Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:06:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:05:38 GMT]]>Devs seeing those costs like 👀

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52098https://undeads.com/forum/post/52098Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:05:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:54:45 GMT]]>Price-to-performance just flipped the game

]]>https://undeads.com/forum/post/52073https://undeads.com/forum/post/52073Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:54:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to DeepSeek V4 Undercuts Every Major AI Model on Price — Here's How It Compares on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:52:51 GMT]]>developers looking at pricing like “why am i paying premium again?”

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