{"slug": "deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api", "title": "DeepSeek to introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API", "summary": "DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API starting Aug. 17, with off-peak rates set at half of peak rates. Peak hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time. For deepseek-v4-flash, peak prices are RMB0.10 per million tokens for cache-hit input, RMB3 for cache-miss input, and RMB9 for output; off-peak prices are RMB0.05, RMB1.5, and RMB4.5. For deepseek-v4-pro, peak prices are RMB0.30, RMB9, and RMB27, with off-peak prices of RMB0.15, RMB4.5, and RMB13.5.", "body_md": "DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API from Aug. 17. Peak hours will run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time, while other hours will be classified as off-peak. Off-peak prices will be set at half the peak rates.\n\nFor `deepseek-v4-flash`\n\n, peak pricing will be RMB0.10 per million tokens for cache-hit input, RMB3 for cache-miss input and RMB9 for output. The corresponding off-peak prices will be RMB0.05, RMB1.5 and RMB4.5. For `deepseek-v4-pro`\n\n, peak prices will be RMB0.30, RMB9 and RMB27, compared with off-peak prices of RMB0.15, RMB4.5 and RMB13.5. [[IT Home](https://www.ithome.com/0/989/418.htm), in Chinese]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/08/14/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 05:07:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 05:14:27.217051+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro", "IT Home"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/deepseek-to-introduce-peak-and-off-peak-pricing-for-its-api.jsonld"}}