ClawHosters
by Daniel Samer
4 min read
DeepSeek just made a quiet move that most people missed. In early February 2026, the company expanded its consumer app context window from 128K to over 1 million tokens. No announcement. No press event. TrendForce confirmed the tenfold jump, and South China Morning Post reported that DeepSeek declined to comment. Meanwhile, speculation about deepseek v4 is building across the internet.
But here's what you actually need to know as an OpenClaw user.
What Changed (and What Didn't)
The 1M context window is live in DeepSeek's web app. That's roughly 750,000 words of context, enough for an entire codebase in a single prompt.
The production API? Still runs DeepSeek V3.2, released December 2025, with a 128K context window. The official API docs list deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner as the only available models. No V4 endpoint exists.
And that distinction matters. If you're running an OpenClaw agent through ClawHosters, your agent talks to the API, not the web app. So the 1M context upgrade doesn't reach your agent yet. Probably not until V4 ships.
DeepSeek V3.2 Is Already Absurdly Cheap
Forget V4 speculation for a second. The current deepseek api pricing is the real story.
| Model | Input (per 1M tokens) | Output (per 1M tokens) |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.28 | $0.42 |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| GPT-4o | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| Claude Opus 4 | $15.00 | $75.00 |
That's 10x cheaper than Claude Sonnet on input and 35x cheaper on output. For OpenClaw agents that send the same system prompt on every request, DeepSeek's cache hit pricing drops input costs to $0.028 per million tokens. Ten cents on the dollar.
On benchmarks, DeepSeek V3.2-Exp scores 67.8% on SWE-bench Verified, actually edging out Claude Sonnet 4's 64.8% on that specific test. The deepseek vs claude gap is narrowing fast.
What About V4
Honestly? Nobody outside DeepSeek knows. Third-party blogs are circulating specs (1 trillion parameters, 1M API context, 80% SWE-bench). These numbers come from research paper analysis, not official announcements. DeepSeek's GitHub has no V4 repository as of February 22, 2026.
The context window upgrade in the consumer app probably signals V4 development is underway. But that's inference, not confirmation.
What This Means for Your OpenClaw Agent
If you're already using DeepSeek through your ClawHosters instance, nothing changes today. Your agent keeps running V3.2 at the same pricing.
If you haven't tried DeepSeek yet, it's worth experimenting. For routine tasks like message routing, knowledge retrieval, and summarization, V3.2 performs well at a fraction of the cost. For complex multi-step reasoning, Claude still holds an edge. Our AI model comparison guide walks through the tradeoffs, and our token cost optimization post covers how to reduce your monthly bill with model routing.
We'll cover V4 when DeepSeek actually releases it.
