THE TICKER · DEEPSEEK · CHECKED DAILY · LAST CHANGE 2026-09-06
DEEPSEEK V4 PRO API PRICING
What DeepSeek charges for DeepSeek V4 Pro, in USD, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Effective price — if there's a promo running, this is the promo.
NOTE: Off-peak rate, in force 17 of every 24 hours. Peak (01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC) doubles it: $1.32 in / $3.96 out.
WHAT THINGS ACTUALLY COST ON DEEPSEEK V4 PRO
| Scenario | Tokens in / out | 1 run | 1,000 runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| A typical prompt (300 tokens in) | 300 / ~900 | $0.0020 | $1.98 |
| A 20-turn conversation (context re-sent) | 4,000 / ~4,000 | $0.01 | $10.56 |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | 8,000 / ~3,200 | $0.01 | $11.62 |
| One agent run (tools, retries, thinking) | 2,000 / ~12,000 | $0.03 | $25.08 |
| A code review request | 1,500 / ~3,750 | $0.0084 | $8.42 |
Output sizes assume the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator (3x for prompts, 6x for agent runs). Estimates, not invoices.
VS. THE REST OF THE BOARD
“Same job” = a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply, priced on both models. Cheaper is not always better. It is, however, always cheaper.
PRICE HISTORY
DeepSeek V4 Pro climbs to $0.66 in / $1.98 out per MTok off-peak (+52% in, +128% out), and doubles again at peak. Cache reads went from $0.003625 to $0.022 per MTok, a 6x that nobody put in a headline.
DeepSeek V4 Pro goes hourly on 2026-08-16: $0.66 in / $1.98 out off-peak, $1.32 / $3.96 at peak — up from a flat $0.435 / $0.87.
DeepSeek V4 Pro joins the board at $0.435 in / $0.87 out per MTok.
Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing · this price comes straight from the provider, published 2026-08-17. Our daily source still reports the older one, so the automated check deliberately stopped confirming this model on 2026-08-14: we would rather show the number the provider charges than the one our source agrees with. The full changelog lives at /pricing/changes.
NOW FIND OUT HOW MUCH OF THAT IS WASTE
DeepSeek V4 Pro's price is fixed. Your token count isn't. Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on DeepSeek V4 Pro — and how much a leaner version would save at 1,000 runs. Or pull the whole board from the ticker.