DeepSeek

DeepSeek API platform

Generally Available

Developer platform exposing the V4 family through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints at aggressive prices (V4-Flash from $0.14/$0.28 per million input/output tokens), with cache-hit input discounts and, from the official V4 release, peak/off-peak pricing.

Latest update Sep 8, 2026

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Current status

V4-Flash-0731 is in public beta with Responses-format support for coding tools; V4-Pro-0813 shipped to full general availability on August 12, 2026. Peak/off-peak API pricing has been live since August 16, 2026 (confirmed on the official pricing page September 8, 2026). Vision-Exp is billed at the same rates as V4-Flash. Legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner models retired July 24, 2026.

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Specifications2

V4-Flash Pricing

$0.22 / $0.66 off-peak and $0.44 / $1.32 peak per million cache-miss input/output tokens (since August 16, 2026)

V4-Pro Pricing

$0.66 / $1.98 off-peak and $1.32 / $3.96 peak per million cache-miss input/output tokens (since August 16, 2026)

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