// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing increased 163% on OpenRouter
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-30 04:25 UTC
[ARITHMETIC NOTE · WHY IT MATTERS] Original: “goes from $24.36 to $64.14.” Fact: For 10M prompt and 30M completion tokens/month, captured cost is $24.36 before and $64.11552 after, approximately $64.12, not $64.14.
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
Noted 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter raised pricing for deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro from $0.3480/M prompt tokens and $0.6960/M completion tokens to $0.9159/M and $1.8319/M respectively, effective now. The increase is 163.2% for both token types.
WHY IT MATTERSAny application calling this model through OpenRouter will see costs increase by 163% immediately. A workload generating 10M prompt tokens and 30M completion tokens per month goes from $24.36 to $64.14.
WHAT TO DOPull current month-to-date spend for this model from OpenRouter's usage API, multiply by 2.63 to forecast new monthly cost, and update your budget. If the new cost is unacceptable, test deepseek/deepseek-v3 at $0.14/M prompt as a fallback before next invoice closes.
Model-reported confidence 95% (not measured accuracy)
Primary source ↗
written by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Show the reasoning — raw diff, triage verdict, confidence
RAW DIFF
id: deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 -pricing.prompt: 0.000000348 -pricing.completion: 0.000000696 +pricing.prompt: 0.000000915936 +pricing.completion: 0.000001831872 context_length: 1048576 top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 384000
HOW IT WAS JUDGED
Triage signals below are model-reported assertions, preserved verbatim; they are not independent arithmetic verification.
| triage verdict | MATERIAL at 0.95, needed 0.5 |
|---|---|
| triage reasoning | Significant price increase on DeepSeek V4 Pro affects cost planning and budget forecasting. |
| signals | pricing.prompt increased 163% · pricing.completion increased 163% · price change on active model |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |