Tencent Cloud says it will reduce prices for DeepSeek-V4 model calls on its Intelligent Agent Development Platform from June 3, 2026, with the largest cut reaching 97.5%. The company says service capabilities will remain unchanged, while DeepSeek’s own pricing page lists V4-Flash and V4-Pro API tiers.
Tencent Cloud announced that it will lower prices for DeepSeek-V4 series model calls on its Intelligent Agent Development Platform from 00:00 Beijing time on June 3, 2026.
In an official Tencent Cloud announcement titled “Notice on the price reduction of DeepSeek-V4 series models for the Intelligent Agent Development Platform,” the company says the price adjustment applies to the DeepSeek-V4 series and that the maximum reduction will reach 97.5%.
Tencent Cloud also states in the notice that the platform’s service capabilities will remain unchanged after the price cut. The announcement frames the change as a pricing update for customers using DeepSeek-V4 through Tencent Cloud’s Intelligent Agent Development Platform, rather than as a change to the underlying model service.
AIbase, which reported on the announcement, said Tencent Cloud’s updated pricing is intended to align with DeepSeek’s official website pricing. AIbase also described DeepSeek-V4 as including Pro and Flash variants, and cited model details including a mixture-of-experts architecture and a native 1 million-token context length. Those model specifications are attributed to AIbase’s report.
DeepSeek’s official API documentation pricing page lists both deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro among its available model options.
According to the DeepSeek API Docs pricing page, V4-Pro pricing is shown per million tokens at 0.025 yuan for cache-hit input, 3 yuan for cache-miss input, and 6 yuan for output. The documentation separates cache-hit and cache-miss input pricing, a structure commonly used by API providers to reflect lower costs when repeated context can be reused.
The Tencent Cloud announcement does not, in the provided excerpt, give every individual post-cut price point. However, its statement that prices will be reduced by as much as 97.5% indicates a significant change for users calling DeepSeek-V4 through Tencent Cloud’s agent development tooling.
For developers and enterprises building AI applications on Tencent Cloud’s Intelligent Agent Development Platform, model-call pricing can be a major operating cost, especially for products that process long prompts, large documents, or high-volume user interactions.
The inclusion of DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash in DeepSeek’s own pricing documentation suggests two different usage paths: a higher-capability Pro option and a Flash option that is likely positioned for lower-cost or lower-latency workloads. Tencent Cloud’s price reduction may make those options more accessible to teams already using Tencent Cloud infrastructure, though actual savings will depend on workload patterns, cache usage, input/output ratios, and the final price table applied by Tencent Cloud.
The timing is also notable because the change is scheduled for a precise launch time: midnight Beijing time on June 3, 2026, according to Tencent Cloud’s announcement. Customers planning usage around that date would need to refer to Tencent Cloud’s official billing page or account console for the final applicable prices.
The central facts are supported by Tencent Cloud’s official announcement and DeepSeek’s API documentation: Tencent Cloud says a DeepSeek-V4 price cut is scheduled for June 3, 2026, with a maximum reduction of 97.5%, while DeepSeek’s pricing page lists V4-Flash and V4-Pro models and provides V4-Pro token pricing.
The broader technical description of DeepSeek-V4’s architecture and context length comes from AIbase’s report. Readers who need production-level details should verify those specifications against DeepSeek’s own technical documentation or model card when available.
Tencent Cloud announced that it will lower prices for DeepSeek V4 series model calls on its Intelligent Agent Development Platform from 00:00 Beijing time on June 3, 2026.
Tencent Cloud also states in the notice that the platform’s service capabilities will remain unchanged after the price cut.
The announcement frames the change as a pricing update for customers using DeepSeek V4 through Tencent Cloud’s Intelligent Agent Development Platform, rather than as a change to the underlying model service.
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