DeepSeek Pro Latest: completion pricing up 3.6x, output limit reduced

OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-23 03:42 UTC

ACTION NEEDED BUDGET PRICINGLIMITSMODEL

WHAT CHANGEDEffective now, DeepSeek Pro Latest completion pricing increased from $0.0000012/token to $0.0000043/token (3.6x). Prompt pricing rose marginally from $0.0000004 to $0.0000004. Maximum completion tokens dropped from 393,216 to 384,000 (9,216 tokens less).

WHY IT MATTERSAny application generating long outputs will see immediate cost increases—a 100k token completion now costs $0.43 instead of $0.12. Workloads relying on the full 393k output window will fail or truncate.

WHAT TO DOPull last 30 days of DeepSeek Pro usage from OpenRouter, calculate new cost at $0.0000043/completion token, and update your budget forecast. If any jobs request >384k output tokens, either split them or switch models before they hit the new limit.

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: 0.00000039996
-pricing.completion: 0.00000119988
+pricing.prompt: 0.0000004
+pricing.completion: 0.0000043
 context_length: 1048576
-top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 393216
+top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 384000

HOW IT WAS JUDGED

triage verdict	MATERIAL at 0.98, needed 0.5
triage reasoning	Pricing increased significantly and output token limit reduced. Teams budgeting or optimizing for this model need to recalculate.
signals	pricing.prompt increased · pricing.completion increased ~3.6x · max_completion_tokens decreased by 9216 tokens
suppression	—
triage model	anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000)
writer model	anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000)