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DeepSeek removed the strikethroughs from its V4 Pro pricing page Saturday. The 75 percent discount is now permanent. Output tokens cost $0.87 per million — 34.5 times less than GPT-5.5. The gap runs on Huawei chips and widens with every Ascend 950 that ships.