DeepSeek Pro completion pricing increased 149%, output limit up 140%

OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-24 03:31 UTC

ACTION NEEDED BUDGET PRICINGLIMITSMODEL

WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter's deepseek-pro-latest model changed pricing: prompt tokens decreased slightly from $0.00000038808 to $0.0000003865 per token, but completion tokens increased from $0.00000116424 to $0.0000029 per token (149% increase). Maximum completion tokens increased from 393,216 to 943,718 tokens.

WHY IT MATTERSIf you generate long outputs with this model, your per-request costs will more than double. A 100k token completion that previously cost $0.116 now costs $0.29. The higher output limit means requests that previously hit the cap can now run longer and cost proportionally more.

WHAT TO DOCalculate your typical completion token usage for this model and reforecast your API budget. If you rely on the output limit as a cost control, set explicit max_tokens parameters in your requests to prevent unexpectedly large bills.

CONFIDENCE 95% Primary source ↗ written by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

Show the reasoning — raw diff, triage verdict, confidence

RAW DIFF

 id: ~deepseek/deepseek-pro-latest
 name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek Pro Latest
-pricing.prompt: 0.00000038808
-pricing.completion: 0.00000116424
+pricing.prompt: 0.0000003865
+pricing.completion: 0.0000029
 context_length: 1048576
-top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 393216
+top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 943718

HOW IT WAS JUDGED

triage verdict	MATERIAL at 0.98, needed 0.5
triage reasoning	Pricing and token limits changed materially. Teams budgeting or optimizing for this model need immediate notice.
signals	pricing.prompt decreased · pricing.completion increased significantly · max_completion_tokens increased 140%
suppression	—
triage model	anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000)
writer model	anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000)