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DeepSeek pricing: plans and what they cost

DeepSeek’s API is pay-as-you-go, priced per 1 million tokens, with cheaper off-peak rates (half of peak). deepseek-flash costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens (cache miss) and $1.20 per 1M output tokens at peak; deepseek-v4-pro costs $1.32 and $3.96. Consumer chat (web/app) pricing: price not verified.

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Flash input$0.30 / 1Mcache miss, peak; $0.15 off-peak
Flash output$1.20 / 1Mpeak; $0.60 off-peak
V4-Pro input$1.32 / 1Mcache miss, peak; $0.66 off-peak
V4-Pro output$3.96 / 1Mpeak; $1.98 off-peak

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Per-seat prices in USD from the official pricing pages. “Annual billing” is the per-month price when billed annually, as the vendor states it; the yearly total is shown where published. “Price not verified” means we couldn’t confirm the number on an official page.

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DeepSeek plans and prices (USD, excl. tax)
PlanMonthly billingAnnual billingSeatsUsage (as published)
DeepSeek Chat (web/app)individual
Price not verified (We couldn’t confirm this price on the vendor’s official page, so we don’t show a number.)
Billed monthly only1

    Consumer chat

    DeepSeek’s pages we fetched don’t print consumer chat (web/app) pricing, so it shows as price not verified.

    Sources: DeepSeek home · DeepSeek Models & Pricing

    Sources: deepseek.com/.

    DeepSeek API rates (USD per 1M tokens, peak / off-peak)

    DeepSeek API rates (USD per 1M tokens, peak / off-peak)
    Featuredeepseek-flashdeepseek-v4-pro
    Input, cache hit$0.006 / $0.003$0.044 / $0.022
    Input, cache miss$0.30 / $0.15$1.32 / $0.66
    Output$1.20 / $0.60$3.96 / $1.98
    • Search & Fetch API: $0.75 per 1,000 successful search requests and $0.75 per 1,000 successful fetch requests.
    • Peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays; off-peak is half price.
    • DeepSeek Chat (web/app): price not verified.

    Tax isn’t stated, so prices are shown excluding tax.

    How DeepSeek pricing works

    Peak and off-peak

    Peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays; all other times are off-peak at half price. Batch-style workloads can save 50% by running off-peak.

    Models

    deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017) has a 1M context, up to 384K output, a concurrency limit of 2,500 and supports JSON output, tool calls, the Responses API, the Anthropic API format and vision. deepseek-v4-pro (DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813) has a concurrency limit of 500, supports JSON output, tool calls and thinking mode, but not vision.

    Billing

    The API uses a prepaid balance; any granted balance is used first. Tax isn’t stated, so prices are shown excluding tax.

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    DeepSeek pricing FAQ

    How much does the DeepSeek API cost?
    deepseek-flash is $0.30 input (cache miss) and $1.20 output per 1M tokens at peak; deepseek-v4-pro is $1.32 and $3.96.
    Is DeepSeek cheaper off-peak?
    Yes, off-peak rates are half of peak.
    What does cached input cost?
    Flash $0.006 and V4-Pro $0.044 per 1M at peak.
    Is the DeepSeek chat app free or paid?
    Price not verified: DeepSeek’s pages we fetched don’t print consumer chat pricing.