DeepSeek API peak and valley pricing plan takes effect today, with prices doubled during peak hours

IT House reported on August 17 that on August 13, Deepin Search officially announced that it would update and adjust the DeepSeek API price, adopting peak and valley pricing, and the price during idle periods will be half of the price during peak periods. Starting today, the pricing plan officially comes into effect. The peak hours are 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time (IT House Note: The rest are free periods). The new price will take effect at 00:00 on August 17, 2026, Beijing time, as follows: Model Million tokens input (cache hit) Million tokens input (cache miss) Million tokens output DeepSeek-v4-flash Idle period 0.05 yuan 1.5 yuan 4.5 yuan Peak period 0.10 yuan 3.0 yuan 9.0 Yuan DeepSeek-v4-pro Idle period 0.15 Yuan 4.5 Yuan 13.5 Yuan Peak period 0.30 Yuan 9.0 Yuan 27.0 Yuan DeepSeek-V4 has a million-word ultra-long context and leads the domestic and open source fields in terms of Agent capabilities, world knowledge and reasoning performance. The model is divided into two versions according to size: Before this, DeepSeek V4 Pro input one million tokens (cache hit) 0.025 yuan; input one million tokens (cache miss) 3 yuan; output one million tokens 6 yuan.