DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update(api-docs.deepseek.com)
48 pointsby fagnerbrack2 hours ago6 comments
  • progvalan hour ago
    Interesting to see that peak hours are work hours in China, night in the US and Europe, and also morning in Europe. So Deepseek's customers are mostly domestic.
    • Hamukoan hour ago
      Not that surprised about it. Personally I've seen companies really just go all-in on a single provider, and that has usually been Anthropic. I don't think we're allowed to run Chinese models even locally.
      • cheesecakegood19 minutes ago
        Also 6-9pm Pacific I think is (coincidentally) peak so it hits the ‘after work hobbyists’ still, which is I suspect is their current main audience.
  • sebastiennight4 minutes ago
    With proprietary labs lowering their prices and Deepseek raising theirs over time, wouldn't it possible to extrapolate a graph to look at where the frontier-token million token cost asymptotes to?
  • alkonautan hour ago
    There is no relative/percentage increases noted (understandably). Just because i'm lazy: roughly how much more expensive is it to work with v4 flash and v4 pro through the API, compared to before the price increases? Is it 2x, 5x, 10x higher?
    • embedding-shape16 minutes ago
      Someone made a comparison yesterday, including relative increases, and GPT-5.6 Luna, then later someone also added more OpenAI, Anthropic, K3 and GLM 5.2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286679

      Already outdated though I think, as GLM 5.3 is latest now :)

    • zupa-hu44 minutes ago
      Off-peak Flash: cache-hit 5x, in/out 3x, so average ~4x.
    • floppydan hour ago
      About 2x-2.5x off-peak for Flash, 2x-4x I'd say for Pro (x6 on cache in, the biggest increase throughout the board). And twice as much in peak hours.
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  • cheesecakegood18 minutes ago
    I wonder if this is enough to push people back onto Luna with their comparative price drop
    • eastbound14 minutes ago
      After the big onshore migrations (startup people migrating to the SV),

      The big Covid migrations (startup prople migrating to the countryside),

      Will we see the big AI migrations (people travelling to where AI is the cheapest)?

  • poly2itan hour ago
    That's a hefty increase. Flash pricing during peak is now 1.32/M out, compared to the current 0.28/M, which in turn is a quite a bit above the cheapest provider at 0.16/M.

    https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...

  • floppydan hour ago
    Full table with multipliers from previous prices:

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash (off-peak, x2 for peak)

    * Cache Hit $0.007 (x2.5)

    * Cache Miss $0.22 (x1.5)

    * Output $0.66 (x2.25)

    DeepSeek-V4-Pro (off-peak, x2 for peak)

    * Cache Hit $0.022 (x6)

    * Cache Miss $0.66 (x1.5)

    * Output $1.98 (x2.25)

    Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC

    Effective from: 16:00, August 16, 2026 (UTC)

    • spuz22 minutes ago
      I wonder whether all the DeepSeek providers will follow suit or are they going to try to stay competitive with the old prices?