News on August 18,DeepSeek SINCE AUGUST 17TH AT 00:00, API HAS FORMALLY ADJUSTED ITS PRICING STRATEGY TO INTRODUCE THE PEAK VALLEY PRICING MECHANISM. THE PEAK TIME PERIOD IS SET AT 9-12:00 AND 14:00-18:00 BEIJING TIME, WHILE THE REST IS FREE TIME AND FREE TIME IS HALF OF THE PEAK TIME。
In the example of the flagship model DeepSeek-V4-Pro, the price per million token input (cacheful lifefall) was raised from $3 to $9 at peak hours, from $6 to $27 at output time, from 0.025 to $0.3 at cache time, with an increase of $1100%; and from idle time input (cachel failure) to $4.5 to $13.5 at output and 0.15 in cache. A lightweight model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, enters (cache failed) 1.5 yuan at peak time, outputs 4.5 yuan and CMB 0.10 yuan。
DeepSeek states that the roll-out of Peak Valley pricing is aimed at balancing day-to-day compression by price leverage, leading the enterprise to a miscalculation of large model tasks to safeguard the platform ' s operational stability. The OpenRouter data show that in August 3rd to August 9th, China's big model Token was called at 34.25 trillion, with 15 consecutive weeks in the top of the world; of this, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, 883 trillion token was called at the top of the global list。