AgentsThe story, in brief
Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices
DeepSeek open-sources agent software while tripling cache-hit costs—a shift that rewires economics for agentic workflows.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
DeepSeek is simultaneously democratizing agent tooling (MIT-licensed Harness) and recalibrating pricing to favor real-time inference over cached reads—a signal that agent workloads are mature enough to merit their own pricing tier.
The key facts
5 to knowDeepSeek V4-Pro exits testing phase and reaches GA
Harness v0.1 agent software released under MIT license
API cache-hit pricing increases 6x
Cache-hit increases are the largest price jump in the transition
Pricing change targets agent workflows with repeated file reads
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The Decoderthe-decoder.com
Publisher excerpt: Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their current cost. For agent workflows that repeatedly read the same files, that's…