Ran 27.8 billion Tokens saves $10,000, DeepSeekV4 achieves Token freedom with ultra-high cache hit rate

According to Dynamic Insight Beating monitoring, developers are leveraging the DeepSeek V4 API's extremely low cache hit price to engage in large-scale fully automated programming, with the cost of processing hundreds of billions of tokens per day significantly lower than similar models. Although DeepSeek has not introduced a monthly code plan like its peers, developers on social platforms still praise it for truly enabling the average person to achieve Token freedom, making it a "price slasher" in the large model field.

Several developers have shared their recent high-frequency call invoices. One user utilized V4 Pro to automatically fix CI errors, with the program running continuously for two and a half hours and consuming 80 million tokens, thanks to a 99.41% cache hit rate, ultimately costing only 4 CNY. Another developer maxed out at 27.8 billion tokens in a single day, with a total bill of only $160 (based on the official price, this extremely low bill corresponds to the V4 Flash model). If switched to Claude Sonnet 4.6, even with the same estimated cache hit rate, the cost would be around $11,076, representing a price difference of over $10,900.

This cost gap directly stems from DeepSeek's extreme price reduction strategy. V4 Pro is currently in a limited-time 75% off promotion (extended to May 31st, with output reduced to $0.87 per million tokens); meanwhile, all API cache hit prices have been permanently reduced by one-tenth, with the actual cache hit price of V4 Pro as low as $0.003625 per million tokens, and the Flash version is as low as $0.0028 per million tokens. In Agent programming scenarios where the same codebase prefix is repeatedly loaded, the cache hit rate is often very high. In such high-throughput scenarios, the pure pay-as-you-go API model is actually more cost-effective than a fixed monthly subscription model that limits the number of calls.

To capture this massive wave of smart body development traffic, the official team has also simultaneously updated third-party integration instructions: setting the model name to deepseek-v4-pro[1m] in Claude Code will unlock million-scale context, while OpenCode and OpenClaw have respectively completed native adaptations by upgrading to versions v1.14.24+ and v2026.4.24+.