{"slug": "deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update", "title": "DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update", "summary": "DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Pro, featuring major agent upgrades, flexible reasoning effort levels, and native OpenAI Responses API support with one-click Codex setup. The company also introduced peak and off-peak API pricing, with off-peak rates 50% lower than peak, effective 16:00 UTC on Aug 16, 2026.", "body_md": "# DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA Release\n\nWe’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀\n\n🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains!\n\n🔷 Flexible [reasoning effort](/guides/thinking_mode) for V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent workflows, max for complex tasks.\n\n🔷 Native OpenAI Responses API support, optimized for [Codex](/quick_start/agent_integrations/codex) with one-click setup.\n\nV4 Pro is now available on app/web. Try it via “Expert Mode”.\n\nV4 Pro is also available via API. Model names remain unchanged—please refer to the API docs for setup details.\n\n### API pricing update 💰\n\nWith the V4 lineup release, we’re updating our API pricing and introducing peak and off-peak rates. Off-peak rates are 50% lower than peak, enabling more flexible workload scheduling. 📉\n\nNew pricing takes effect at 16:00 UTC, Aug 16, 2026 🕒", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update", "canonical_source": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 09:55:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 18:13:33.615114+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "DeepSeek-V4-Pro", "OpenAI", "Codex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-peak-off-peak-pricing-update.jsonld"}}