# DeepSeek releases V4 Pro flagship model from preview, General Availability on August 12

> DeepSeek has moved its V4 Pro model out of a four-month preview and into general availability, marking the Chinese lab's most serious flagship push yet. The release comes in two tiers: V4-Flash, a fast and cheap option whose weights were posted openly on Hugging Face under an MIT license at the end of July, and V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship built for harder work. Both share a 1M-token context window and can generate up to 384K tokens in a single pass. What makes the launch land is the pricing. At roughly $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, with cached inputs a fraction of a cent, V4 Pro undercuts many Western frontier models by a wide margin while claiming comparable quality. That combination, open weights on the cheap tier and aggressive pricing on the flagship, keeps the pressure on labs charging many times more, and it reinforces how quickly the performance gap between US and Chinese systems has narrowed.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Unite.AI · Published Thursday, August 13, 2026_

## Wortins' read

DeepSeek has moved its V4 Pro model out of a four-month preview and into general availability, marking the Chinese lab's most serious flagship push yet. The release comes in two tiers: V4-Flash, a fast and cheap option whose weights were posted openly on Hugging Face under an MIT license at the end of July, and V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship built for harder work. Both share a 1M-token context window and can generate up to 384K tokens in a single pass. What makes the launch land is the pricing. At roughly $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, with cached inputs a fraction of a cent, V4 Pro undercuts many Western frontier models by a wide margin while claiming comparable quality. That combination, open weights on the cheap tier and aggressive pricing on the flagship, keeps the pressure on labs charging many times more, and it reinforces how quickly the performance gap between US and Chinese systems has narrowed.

## Source

[Read the full story at Unite.AI](https://www.unite.ai/deepseek-ships-v4-pro-as-its-flagship-model-leaves-preview/)

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