// AI Platform Drift
DeepSeek Pro Latest pricing increased 12% prompt, 72% completion
OpenRouter model catalogue · published 2026-09-22 11:06 UTC
CORRECTED 2026-10-02 17:58 UTC — [CORRECTION · triage.triage reasoning] Original: “max output tokens nearly doubled” Fact: Maximum output tokens become 2.4576 times the prior value (+145.8%); they more than double.
Stood 246h 52m · cause arithmetic · every correction ↗
[ARITHMETIC NOTE · triage.signals] Original: “pricing.completion increased ~71.6%” Fact: Completion pricing increases 71.8508%, approximately 71.9%.
[ARITHMETIC NOTE · WHAT CHANGED] Original: “(+71.6%)” Fact: Completion pricing increases 71.8508%, approximately 71.9%.
Captured arithmetic only; vendor rate validity, applicability and effective conditions remain unverified.
WHAT CHANGEDOpenRouter's deepseek-pro-latest model pricing changed: prompt tokens from $0.000000558624 to $0.000000624 per token (+11.7%), completion tokens from $0.000001675872 to $0.00000288 per token (+71.6%). Max completion tokens increased from 384,000 to 943,718.
WHY IT MATTERSCompletion token costs rose 72%, which compounds on long-form generation workloads. A 10,000-token completion that cost $0.0168 now costs $0.0288, a $0.012 increase per call. High-volume applications will see material budget impact.
WHAT TO DOPull last 30 days of deepseek-pro-latest usage from OpenRouter logs, calculate new cost at current volume, and update your monthly forecast. If completion length averages above 5,000 tokens, evaluate whether the increased max_completion_tokens justifies the 72% cost increase or whether to switch models.
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: 0.000000558624 -pricing.completion: 0.000001675872 +pricing.prompt: 0.000000624 +pricing.completion: 0.00000288 context_length: 1048576 -top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 384000 +top_provider.max_completion_tokens: 943718
HOW IT WAS JUDGED
Triage signals below are model-reported assertions, preserved verbatim; they are not independent arithmetic verification.
| triage verdict | MATERIAL at 0.98, needed 0.5 |
|---|---|
| triage reasoning | Pricing per token increased significantly; max output tokens nearly doubled. |
| signals | pricing.prompt increased ~11.7% · pricing.completion increased ~71.6% · max_completion_tokens increased ~145% (384000 → 943718) |
| suppression | — |
| triage model | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 ($0.00000) |
| writer model | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 ($0.00000) |