DeepSeek API platform

Name: DeepSeek API platform
Brand: DeepSeek

Generally Available

Overview

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.

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. New peak/off-peak API pricing takes effect August 16, 2026. Legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner models retired July 24, 2026.

Key Specs

V4-Flash Pricing

$0.14 / input MTok, $0.28 / output MTok

V4-Pro Pricing

$0.435 input / $0.87 output per MTok at launch; rising to $3.96 output at peak hours (half that off-peak) effective August 16, 2026