DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash shipped at a price point that broke the implicit pricing floor for frontier-tier inference. The reason matters more than the number. Once a frontier-quality forward pass is one or two orders of magnitude cheaper, the rules for building agentic systems and AI-native SaaS shift in ways that are not yet priced in.
DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash shipped at a price point that broke the implicit pricing floor for frontier-tier inference. The reason matters more than the number. Once a frontier-quality forward pass is one or two orders of magnitude cheaper, the rules for building agentic systems and AI-native SaaS shift in ways that are not yet priced in.































