DeepSeek V4-Pro
Last verified September 12, 2026 · DeepSeek pricing ↗$0.660/1M input · $1.98/1M output · 1.0M context · DeepSeek
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DeepSeekROUTING CANCELLED 2026-09-11: between the 07:47 and 16:55 UTC Wayback captures of the pricing page on September 11, footnote (2) was rewritten to 'In response to user demand, we have decided to continue providing API services for DeepSeek V4 Pro after September 14, 2026, with the billing method remaining unchanged. We will provide further notice should there be any changes.' The priceSchedule this entry carried (to $0.15/$0.60 from 2026-09-14) was removed on 2026-09-12 so the calculator does not cut the price for a change DeepSeek withdrew; the card below stays in force with no end date. DeepSeek's news page (news260910) still carries the original routing text and has not been updated. The paragraph that follows describes the routing as announced on 2026-09-10 and is kept for the record. ORIGINAL NOTE: DeepSeek's pricing page footnote (2) stated that 'From 12:00 Beijing Time on September 14, 2026, and until V4.1 Pro is released in the future, requests to deepseek-v4-pro will all be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at the V4.1 Flash price.' The scheduled price above ($0.15 / $0.60 off-peak, cache hit $0.003) is therefore NOT a cut to this model; it is the V4.1 Flash card (552B params, 16B active) replacing this 1.6T / 49B one behind the same name. The Pro card itself is unchanged until then. The switch was originally to happen at V4.1 Flash's launch on 2026-09-10 per a user-group notice of 2026-09-09; DeepSeek postponed it four days after a 399-point Hacker News thread. 12:00 Beijing is 04:00 UTC, the minute the first weekday peak window closes. No snapshot id preserves V4 Pro; the postponement notice says continued use after the change is deemed acceptance, with cancellation and refund as the alternative. Whether routed traffic keeps Pro's 500 concurrency or gets Flash's 2,500 is not stated. No V4.1 Pro release date has been published. PEAK IS WEEKDAYS ONLY: the footnote added 'Monday through Friday' between the 2026-08-22 and 2026-08-24 Wayback captures with no changelog entry, so peak covers 35 of 168 hours (20.8%), not 7 of 24; the blended figures below were written before that edit and overstate a flat workload's cost by about 7%. 1.6T total params, 49B active (MoE). GA build DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 rolled out 2026-08-13 on the unchanged deepseek-v4-pro model name; self-reported HLE 42.7/60.0 (wo/w tools), Terminal Bench 2.1 87.9, NL2Repo 61.5, Cybergym 83.3, DeepSWE 62.7, Toolathlon-Verified 74.1, Agents' Last Exam 25.7, AutomationBench 31.8, DSBench-FullStack 71.1, DSBench-Hard 67.2, none independently confirmed. Three reasoning modes: non-think, think-high, think-max. Concurrency limit 500 against V4-Flash's 2,500. PRICE CHANGE 2026-08-16: the "significant increase" DeepSeek warned about on 2026-08-06 landed as a peak/off-peak split effective 16:00 UTC on 2026-08-16. Peak is 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC (7 of 24 hours, the same windows announced in June as 09:00-12:00 / 14:00-18:00 Beijing and then withdrawn); off-peak is exactly half of peak on every line. New card: off-peak $0.66 input / $1.98 output / $0.022 cache hit, peak $1.32 / $3.96 / $0.044. The stored figure is the OFF-PEAK rate, which applies 17 of 24 hours; a workload spread evenly across the clock pays a blended $0.8525 input and $2.5575 output. Multipliers off the old $0.435/$0.87/$0.003625 card are not uniform: input 1.52x off-peak, output 2.28x, cache hits 6.07x, and 3.03x/4.55x/12.14x at peak. The cache discount narrows from 99.17% to 96.67% of the input rate. The output:input ratio moved from 2:1 to exactly 3:1 and the premium over V4-Flash settled at exactly 3.00x. This retires the 75% cut that was made permanent on 2026-05-22 (when the scheduled May 31 step-up to $1.74/$3.48 was cancelled), so "permanent" lasted twelve weeks.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.66
Output / 1M tokens
$1.98
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
384K
Price History
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | $0.435 → $0.660 | $0.870 → $1.98 | ↑ +52% |
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