Off-peak Pricing, Peak Pricing Doubles: DeepSeek API Peak-Valley Pricing Launched, V4Pro Prices Rise Up to 11 Times
DeepSeek started implementing API peak-valley time-based pricing at 00:00 on August 17. The cost during peak hours (9:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00) is twice that of off-peak hours, aiming to guide developers to schedule large model tasks during off-peak times, alleviate daytime compute congestion, and improve platform stability. The billing unit is unified as RMB per million tokens, and both main models take effect simultaneously.