# DeepSeek V4-Pro launches with 1 million token context and enhanced agentic capabilities

> DeepSeek has pushed V4-Pro out of preview and into general availability, landing it on web, mobile, and the API after months of limited access. The headline numbers are large: 1.6 trillion total parameters with a Mixture-of-Experts design that routes each token through only about 49 billion active parameters, keeping costs down while claiming frontier-level quality. The features aimed at builders are what stand out. V4-Pro handles a 1 million token context window and can produce up to 384,000 tokens of output, in either a deliberate thinking mode or a faster direct mode. DeepSeek is pitching it squarely at agentic work, meaning tool use, code execution, and multi-step tasks that run without a human babysitting each step. There is a business wrinkle too. DeepSeek raised prices alongside the launch, reportedly ahead of a possible IPO, though the model still undercuts most Western rivals. For a company that built its reputation on cheap capability, that shift is worth watching as much as the specs themselves.

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## Wortins' read

DeepSeek has pushed V4-Pro out of preview and into general availability, landing it on web, mobile, and the API after months of limited access. The headline numbers are large: 1.6 trillion total parameters with a Mixture-of-Experts design that routes each token through only about 49 billion active parameters, keeping costs down while claiming frontier-level quality. The features aimed at builders are what stand out. V4-Pro handles a 1 million token context window and can produce up to 384,000 tokens of output, in either a deliberate thinking mode or a faster direct mode. DeepSeek is pitching it squarely at agentic work, meaning tool use, code execution, and multi-step tasks that run without a human babysitting each step. There is a business wrinkle too. DeepSeek raised prices alongside the launch, reportedly ahead of a possible IPO, though the model still undercuts most Western rivals. For a company that built its reputation on cheap capability, that shift is worth watching as much as the specs themselves.

## Source

[Read the full story at Quartz](https://qz.com/deepseek-v4-pro-official-launch-081326)

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