DeepSeek Peak-Off-Peak API Pricing Takes Effect August 17 with Increases Up to 1,100 Percent
DeepSeek's new peak and off peak API pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Pro took effect at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026 (midnight Beijing time Augus…
Published on MyPrivateClaw
Aug 17, 2026, 8:22 AM UTC
Coverage date
Aug 17, 2026
Last updated
Aug 17, 2026, 8:22 AM UTC
News summary
DeepSeek officially released DeepSeek V4 Pro (model version DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813) as generally available on August 13, 2026, with API access and support for thinking/non thinking modes, a 1 million token context window, up to 384000 token output, native Responses API support, Anthropic API compatibility, and tool calling. DeepSeek's new peak and off peak API pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Pro took effect at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026 (midnight Beijing time August 17, 2026), with off peak rates set uniformly at half of peak hour prices. Under the new peak hour pricing for DeepSeek V4 Pro, cache hit input rose 1,100 percent from the old price to 0.3 yuan per million tokens; cache miss input rose 200 percent to 9 yuan; and output rose 350 percent to 27 yuan per million tokens. Under the new peak hour pricing for DeepSeek V4 Flash, cache hit input rose 400 percent from the…