DeepSeek V4 Pricing
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DeepSeek V4 costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens on the DeepSeek API. Cached input reads are billed at $0.022 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 September 14, 2026.
DeepSeek V4 API pricing
DeepSeek V4 API pricing is $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens, verified September 14, 2026.
- Input (per 1M tokens)
- $0.66
- Output (per 1M tokens)
- $1.98
- Cached input (per 1M tokens)
- $0.02
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 384,000 tokens
Capabilities
DeepSeek V4 supports extended reasoning, tool use.
Price history
See full DeepSeek V4 price historyDeepSeek V4 API pricing has changed 2 times on record, most recently on August 24, 2026 (increase).
- August 24, 2026: Increase — input $0.43 → $0.66/M (+$0.23) — output $1.98/M
- August 17, 2026: Increase — input $0.43/M — output $0.87 → $1.98/M (+$1.11)
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to the most common questions about DeepSeek V4 pricing, limits, and capabilities.
Notes
REPRICED 2026-08-16: DeepSeek moved V4 (and V4-Pro variant) to TIME-BASED pricing. Off-peak $0.66/$1.98 per M (stored rate); PEAK $1.32/$3.96 per M (2x). Peak hours = 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC. Cache-hit input $0.003625/M. 1M context window, 384K max output. NOTE: DeepSeek V4-Pro is the frontier-tier sibling (80.6% SWE-Bench Verified, MIT license) with identical off-peak rates — currently rolled into this record; consider splitting into separate row if buyer confusion emerges. Source: benchlm.ai/deepseek/api-pricing + deepseek.ai/pricing 2026-08.