DeepSeek V4 Pricing
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DeepSeek V4 costs $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens on the DeepSeek API. Cached input reads are billed at $0.0036 per million tokens. It supports a 1,000,000-token context window and up to 384,000 output tokens per request. The model supports extended reasoning, tool use. Pricing verified July 29, 2026.
DeepSeek V4 API pricing
- Input (per 1M tokens)
- $0.43
- Output (per 1M tokens)
- $0.87
- Cached input (per 1M tokens)
- $0
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 384,000 tokens
Capabilities
Price history
Price-stable since May 30, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Notes
V4 Pro tier. PROMO MADE PERMANENT: DeepSeek announced May 23, 2026 that the 75% discount (previously set to expire May 31, 2026 15:59 UTC) is now the permanent standard rate — no price jump coming. Cache Write 5m/1h N/A — DeepSeek splits input into cache-miss (full price) and cache-hit (1/120 of input) — no separate write cost. Cache hit price was reduced to 1/10 of launch price on April 26, 2026. No native batch tier. Verified May 28, 2026 via api-docs.deepseek.com. [2026-05-28] Updated Context Window 128000 → 1000000 and Max Output Tokens 8192 → 384000 per DeepSeek-V4-Pro official spec (Hugging Face + OpenRouter cards confirm 1,048,576 context / 384,000 max output). [2026-05-30] Confirmed via apidog.com, aimadetools.com, thenextweb.com, codersera.com: DeepSeek made the 75% V4-Pro discount permanent on May 23, 2026. Standard rates remain $0.435 input / $0.87 output / $0.003625 cache-hit per MTok with no expiry. Prior warning about a 4× May-31 price jump is no longer applicable.