New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)

3•mittermayr•48m ago

See here: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Peak pricing is twice the price, or, off-peak is half the price.

Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC (all other hours are off-peak)

-- V4 FLASH NOW -----------------

Off-peak: $0.007 (cache hit), $0.22 (miss), $0.66 (out)

Peak: $0.014 (cache hit), $0.44 (miss), $1.32 (out)

-- V4 FLASH OLD vs NEW (OFF-PEAK) -----------------

Cache hit: $0.0028 vs $0.007 (+250%)

Cache miss: $0.14 vs $0.22 (+157%)

Output: $0.28 vs $0.66 (+235%)

-- V4 PRO -----------------

Off-peak: $0.022 (cache hit), $0.66 (miss), $1.98 (out)

Peak: $0.044 (cache hit), $1.32 (miss), $3.96 (out)

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Once the page gets updated and lost in time, to compare, the same page from August 1, 2026: https://web.archive.org/web/20260801170952/https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Comments

sixtyj•29m ago

DeekSeek did a strategic b2c mistake. It is always easier to start with higher prices and give discounts than go opposite way (=raise).

But people get used to higher prices. Or they churn out.

For hobby projects there can be local or free models. There are also some caching techniques.

mittermayr•26m ago

Yeah, they onboarded A LOT of folks with that original pricing and quality. It was "good enough" for most use-cases, like many, I work in existing code-bases and do a lot of "multi-file" edits, that aren't hard to do technically, just take a lot of time and must be done precisely enough. For that, it was perfect.

I wonder how many people will stay, there's still a huge void in alternatives on that original pricing.

alxcls•20m ago

Well I could have done without the improvement if it meant keeping the prices low, might have to find a better model for cheap inference

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