$0.55 per million input tokens. That is where DeepSeek V4 Pro landed after the June 4, 2026 price cut — down from $2.19. Output tokens dropped from $8.76 to $2.19 per million. For pipelines running millions of tokens per day, that single pricing change can cut your monthly inference bill by 60–70% compared to running equivalent workloads on Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-4.1. The cut was not announced with fanfare. DeepSeek updated their pricing page quietly, and the change propagated through Open...