DeepSeek officially announced that the full release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July, along with a new peak/off-peak pricing mechanism. During peak hours — 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00 Beijing time daily — API billing rates will be 2x the usual price.
Under the new pricing, the high-performance deepseek-v4-pro model will cost, per million tokens, 0.025 yuan for cache-hit input, 3.00 yuan for cache-miss input, and 6.00 yuan for output during off-peak hours. During peak hours, those prices rise to 0.05...