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DeepSeek V4 Lands as an Open-Weight 1M-Context Model at $1.74 per Million Input Tokens
DeepSeek's V4 dropped in mid-June as an open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, priced at $1.74 per million input tokens and posting near-parity with GPT-5.4 on math and Q&A benchmarks. For builders, the combination of open weights, frontier-adjacent reasoning scores, and sub-$2 input pricing reopens the self-host-vs-API math right as Anthropic and Z.ai are reshuffling their own pricing. The cost gap to closed frontier coding models is now wide enough to force a build-vs-buy reconsideration.
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