DeepSeek API pricing: peak and off-peak token rates
Checked Nov 9, 2026 on DeepSeek API’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
DeepSeek charges per million tokens and splits input into cache hits and cache misses. Prices depend on the time of day: off-peak rates are half the peak rates.
Figures below are quoted from api-docs.deepseek.com (pricing) as read on Nov 9, 2026. Prices change often: confirm with DeepSeek before you buy.
Per 1M tokens
- Input, cache hit
- deepseek-flash peak$0.006
- deepseek-flash off-peak$0.003
- deepseek-v4-pro peak$0.044
- deepseek-v4-pro off-peak$0.022
- Input, cache miss
- deepseek-flash peak$0.30
- deepseek-flash off-peak$0.15
- deepseek-v4-pro peak$1.32
- deepseek-v4-pro off-peak$0.66
- Output
- deepseek-flash peak$1.20
- deepseek-flash off-peak$0.60
- deepseek-v4-pro peak$3.96
- deepseek-v4-pro off-peak$1.98
Peak hours and limits
- Peak: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays. Other times are off-peak.
- Context: 1M tokens; max output 384K tokens.
- Search/Fetch API: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.
- Model IDs on the page: deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017) and deepseek-v4-pro (DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813).
See also DeepSeek vs OpenAI API.
DeepSeek API pricing FAQ
How much does the DeepSeek API cost?
On Nov 9, 2026, deepseek-flash was $0.30 per 1M cache-miss input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens at peak, half that off-peak; deepseek-v4-pro was $1.32 and $3.96 at peak.
When are DeepSeek off-peak hours?
Off-peak is any time outside 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC on weekdays (excluding Chinese public holidays).
Sources (official pages, read Nov 9, 2026)
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