# DeepSeek makes its 75% price cut permanent, escalating a brutal AI price war

> DeepSeek just made the price war structural rather than promotional, betting that market share matters more than margin. For anyone building on the closed frontier labs this is the pressure that eventually shows up as cheaper tokens; for those labs it is a floor being dragged down from Hangzhou. The interesting second-order effect is what permanently low prices do to everyone's unit economics.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Engadget · Published Friday, June 26, 2026_

## Wortins' read

DeepSeek just made the price war structural rather than promotional, betting that market share matters more than margin. For anyone building on the closed frontier labs this is the pressure that eventually shows up as cheaper tokens; for those labs it is a floor being dragged down from Hangzhou. The interesting second-order effect is what permanently low prices do to everyone's unit economics.

## Source

[Read the full story at Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/2180062/deepseek-permanently-reduces-the-price-of-its-flagship-v4-model-by-75-percent/)

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