DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro Model with Massive API Price Hikes

The official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has been released and deployed across APIs and platforms like OpenRouter, featuring a 1 million token context window. Official and leaked benchmarks indicate significant improvements in Agent capabilities, though the community debates its actual performance. The model's highly disruptive pricing—offering single-task costs far below competitors—has triggered renewed industry focus on LLM inference costs.

已确认

• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 official version is now available on DeepSeek API, the official chat platform, and third-party platforms like OpenCode Go and OpenRouter (@strangedell123, @zephyrz9, @aigclink, @op7418).
• The model supports a 1 million token context, priced at $0.435/million tokens for input and $0.87/million tokens for output (@kimmonismus, @AccBalanced).
• According to official reports, the model shows massive improvements over the preview version across multiple Agent benchmarks, such as DeepSWE reaching 62.7 (+49.9), Terminal Bench increasing to 87.9, and significant leaps in CyberGym scores (@scaling01, @ChrisGPT, @thesaraharminta).

尚未确认

• Leaked test scores suggest explosive performance, even defeating current frontier models, but some data remains fully unverified by official sources (@op7418, @PMinervini).
• There is community debate over the model's overall benchmark scores. @bindureddy revealed its scores lag behind Kimi K3 and Qwen; @kristoph also noted that AI labs often cherry-pick favorable benchmarks, making it difficult for users to judge true capabilities.
• In hands-on comparisons, @vista8 stated that Grok 4.6 has a slightly better single-generation success rate than DeepSeek V4 Pro, but admitted the tests are subjective and random.

为什么重要

• 极致性价比颠覆成本认知：Thanks to technologies like an ultra-small sparse KV Cache, its API pricing is exceptionally low. @ojasviyadav's tests indicate its single-task cost is 10 times cheaper than GLM5.2, and 72 times cheaper than Opus 4.8 and Fable 5. @XianbaoQIAN believes that if this model is open-sourced, it will have a disruptive impact.
• 检验中国大模型后训练能力：@zephyrz9 points out that the model's performance will define the strength of Chinese AI labs in the post-training phase.
• 加剧 API 价格战：@AccBalanced mentioned that since the release of the 0731 checkpoint, DeepSeek 4 Flash has already triggered an intense price war in the third-party market, and the community anticipates even fiercer competition driven by 4 Pro.

2026-08-12 ~ 2026-08-13 · 47 related posts

Full story(5 episodes)→

• Episode 1: DeepSeek V4 Pro Launch Imminent, API and Timeline Leaked(2026-08-11, 5 posts)
• Episode 2: DeepSeek V4 Specs and Pricing Leak Spark Debate(2026-08-11, 5 posts)
• Episode 3: DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro Model with Massive API Price Hikes(2026-08-12, 47 posts)
• Episode 4: DeepSeek V4 Pro Underwhelms in Benchmarks Despite Size Increase(2026-08-13, 16 posts)
• Episode 5: DeepSeek-V4-Pro Revealed: Near GPT-5.6 Performance at a Fraction of the Cost(2026-08-13, 2 posts)

• DeepSeek V4 Pro General Availability Rolls Out, Testing Chinese Labs' Post-Training Prowess — zephyr_z9 · 2026-08-12
• DeepSeek V4 Pro launches, rivals Fable5 in agent benchmarks at a fraction of the price — AGI Hunt · 2026-08-12
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro Officially Released: 1M Context, API Pricing Increased — APPSO · 2026-08-12
• DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 Rolling Out to API — strangedell123 · 2026-08-12
• DeepSeek v4 Pro Eval Sparks Debate: Cherry-picked Benchmarks Obscure True Power — kristoph · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Released with Massive Jumps in Coding and Security Benchmarks — ChrisGPT · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Agentic Performance Surges, Priced at Just $0.435/M Input Tokens — thesaraharminta · 2026-08-13
• [source] DeepSeek 4 Pro GA Launches with Insanely Good Pricing — kimmonismus · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Surfaces with Insane Pricing at $0.435/M Input — AccBalanced · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Surfaces with Extremely Competitive Pricing — a_karvonen · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 GA: big agent gains, now on OpenRouter — scaling01 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Officially Released with Explosive Leaked Benchmarks — op7418 · 2026-08-13
• Leaked Benchmark Screenshots for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Surface — op7418 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek 4 Flash Price Wars Thrive as Community Awaits 4 Pro Pricing — AccBalanced · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Now Available on OpenCode Go with Leaked Benchmarks — op7418 · 2026-08-13
• Leaked DeepSeek V4 Pro Benchmarks Show It Beating Claude Opus in Multiple Metrics — dotey · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Analysis: Ultra-low API Costs and SSD KV Cache Revolution — Xianbao_QIAN · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro API with Massive Agent Upgrades, Closing Gap on Claude 5 — 智东西 · 2026-08-13
• Rumors Suggest DeepSeek V4 Pro Official Release — DevDminGod · 2026-08-13
• Hands-On Comparison: Grok 4.6 Edges Out DeepSeek in Success Rate, but Lags on Price — vista8 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Offers 10x Cheaper Cost Per Task Than GLM5.2 — ojasvi_yadav · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Officially Released with Major Agent Upgrades — aigclink · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Scores Below Kimi K3 and Qwen — bindureddy · 2026-08-13
• Leaked DeepSeek V4 Pro Benchmarks Show Top-Tier Performance at 1/100 Cost — PMinervini · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek Releases V4-Pro Model with FP8 Quantization — deepseek-ai · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro GA Released: Near Frontier Performance at a Fraction of the Cost — FuSheng_0306 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro Hits OpenCode, Claimed 11x Cheaper Than Sonnet — AccBalanced · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek quietly lists non-preview V4-Pro-0813 on API — AlbeHxT9 · 2026-08-13
• [source] DeepSeek-V4-Pro Officially Released: Enhanced Agent Capabilities and Peak/Off-Peak API Pricing — vista8 · 2026-08-13
• Users Complain About DeepSeek V4 Pro 12x Peak Pricing Surge — oran_ge · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek's New Peak/Off-Peak API Pricing Goes Live — zephyr_z9 · 2026-08-13
• [source] DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro with Major Agent Upgrades and Flexible Reasoning — deepseek_ai · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek Officially Announces Launch of DeepSeek-V4-Pro — Nunki08 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek Announces Massive API Price Hikes (50-1000%) — AlyoshaV · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing surges 12x, users complain about value — oran_ge · 2026-08-13
• User Reacts to DeepSeek-V4-Pro Pricing: "Crazy" — oran_ge · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek-V4 API Pricing Leaks: 1M Context, Peak/Off-Peak Billing — aigclink · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro Model Repo Surfaces on Hugging Face — op7418 · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek-V4-Pro Weights Released with Million-Token Context — cedric_chee · 2026-08-13
• DeepSeek Announces V4 Lineup, Introduces Peak/Off-Peak API Pricing with 50% Drop — airesearch12 · 2026-08-13

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