// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek Pro Latest pricing cut 79%, max completion tokens reduced 58%
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-26 10:57 UTC
CORRECTED 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC — [CORRECTION · WHAT CHANGED] Original: “from $0.00000035 to $0.00000074844 per completion token” Fact: The captured completion rate decreases from $0.0000035 to $0.00000074844/token (78.6% lower); the published before rate was tenfold too low.
Stood 151h 1m · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter's deepseek-pro-latest model pricing dropped from $0.00000035 to $0.00000074844 per completion token (79% decrease) and $0.00000025 to $0.00000024948 per prompt token (0.2% decrease), effective now. Maximum completion tokens reduced from 943,718 to 393,216 tokens.
WHY IT MATTERSIf you generate long outputs near the previous 943K token limit, requests will now fail or truncate at 393K tokens. Cost forecasts based on the old completion pricing are now overstated by 79%.
WHAT TO DOCheck your application's max_tokens parameter and any completion length assumptions against the new 393,216 limit. Update budget projections to reflect the new completion rate of $0.00000074844 per token.
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-pro-latest name: DeepSeek: DeepSeek Pro Latest -pricing.prompt: 0.00000025 -pricing.completion: 0.0000035 +pricing.prompt: 0.00000024948 +pricing.completion: 0.00000074844 context_length: 1048576 -top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 943718 +top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 393216
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 | Pricing changes and token limit reduction directly affect engineering budgets and model capacity planning. |
| signals | prompt pricing decreased · completion pricing decreased significantly · max_completion_tokens reduced by 58% |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |