{"id":219308,"date":"2026-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-for-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:30:09","slug":"deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-for-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354668\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut\">DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354668\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354668\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek&#8217;s flagship V4 Pro model is now ranked as one of the world&#8217;s most cost-efficient due to a permanent 75% price cut, outperforming US giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/li>\n<li>The Hangzhou-based company announced the permanent price reduction following the launch of its V4 generation, which includes the V4 Pro and a lighter variant, V4 Flash.<\/li>\n<li>DeepSeek&#8217;s strategy reflects a different approach by Chinese companies competing in the global AI race, focusing on cost-effectiveness rather than high premium prices.<\/li>\n<li>According to Artificial Analysis, the price cut positions V4 Pro as a leader in intelligence-per-dollar, a metric gaining popularity amid a global compute supply crunch.<\/li>\n<li>DeepSeek&#8217;s V4 Pro now costs as low as $0.0036 per 1 million cached input tokens and $0.87 per 1 million output tokens, drastically lowering the cost required for performance benchmarks compared to GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 from OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepSeek V4 Pro tops global bang-for-buck ranking after 75% price cut https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3354668\/deepseek-v4-pro-tops-global-bang-buck-ranking-after-75-price-cut Publish Date: 2026-05-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/24\/7664f37a-2596-4a1b-8a69-88d35b3d7374_63fe9948.jpg?itok=RhMa6VfF&v=1779610198","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219310,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219308\/revisions\/219310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}