Multiple DeepSeek API users have confirmed receiving a pricing adjustment email: V4 official version peak period prices will double

Odaily Planet Daily News: Multiple developers have confirmed receiving an upgrade notification email from DeepSeek. The email indicates that the official version of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled to launch in mid-July, and will simultaneously adjust API pricing strategies by introducing a peak-valley pricing mechanism to allocate resources more rationally and improve service stability. According to the email, the prices for the V4 Pro and V4 Flash models will remain unchanged during off-peak hours, but API prices during peak hours will be adjusted to twice the normal rate. Peak hours are from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM daily.

Specifically, for V4 Pro during peak hours, the cache-hit input price is 0.05 yuan/million Tokens, the cache-miss input price is 6 yuan/million Tokens, and the output price is 12 yuan/million Tokens. For V4 Flash during peak hours, the cache-hit input price is 0.04 yuan/million Tokens, the cache-miss input price is 2 yuan/million Tokens, and the output price is 4 yuan/million Tokens. (Blue Whale Tech)