OpenAI's New O1-Pro Costs 1,000 Times More Than DeepSeek

On March 20, 2025, OpenAI unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, the o1-Pro API, which has already gained attention for being the most expensive AI model the company has ever released. Priced at $150 per million input tokens and $600 per million output tokens, the o1-Pro API is positioned as a premium offering designed for enterprise users and developers requiring cutting-edge reasoning capabilities.

However, this pricing structure has caused a lot of controversy, especially when we compare it to DeepSeek, where a similar model costs about one thousandth of the o1-Pro. Let's examine the effects of this situation more closely.