This is good for other competitors I guess. People rarely calculate the bump in price but the fact that price is increasing might bring them to other vendors.
DeepSeek API Pricing Update
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Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#72Full table with multipliers from previous prices: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (off-peak, x2 for peak) * Cache Hit $0.007 (x2.5) * Cache Miss $0.22 (x1.5) * Output $0.66 (x2.25) DeepSeek-V4-Pro (off-peak, x2 for peak) * Cache Hit $0.022 (x6) * Cache Miss $0.66 (x1.5) * Output $1.98 (x2.25) Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC Effective from: 16:00, August 16, 2026 (UTC)
I wonder whether all the DeepSeek providers will follow suit or are they going to try to stay competitive with the old prices?
I didn't get the impression that anyone competed with the old prices before.
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder whether all the DeepSeek providers will follow suit or are they going to try to stay competitive with the old prices?
I didn't get the impression that anyone competed with the old prices before.
What do you mean? Most providers on OpenRouter offer the same or lower prices than DeepSeek themselves:
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#74Interesting to see that peak hours are work hours in China, night in the US and Europe, and also morning in Europe. So Deepseek's customers are mostly domestic.
That's a bit obvious, isn't it?
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#75Interesting to see that peak hours are work hours in China, night in the US and Europe, and also morning in Europe. So Deepseek's customers are mostly domestic.
Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC
For European and US customers this is effectively 2x increase. I think i wll keep using both Flash and Pro as before.
EDIT: Misread numbers to believe off-peak kept old prices
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#76This is somewhat funny when you realise the data centres are now going to start a process that looks very so slightly like daydreaming. Depending on the time of day they're going to be thinking about different things in a cyclic manner. They're going to be doing things like finishing a hard days work then kicking back to think about tricky math problems.
That’s what my KimiClaw has literally been doing
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't get the impression that anyone competed with the old prices before.
What do you mean? Most providers on OpenRouter offer the same or lower prices than DeepSeek themselves: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash#providers
- lower prices on cache miss
- but what matter - is cache hit
even now deepseek's off-peak hours for cache hit (0.007) is lower than other providers (~0.01)
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#78Does the API response include a "service tier" response to indicate whether you paid peak/off-peak for a given request? I like to compute cost for each request, and save it with my results.
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#79Full table with multipliers from previous prices: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (off-peak, x2 for peak) * Cache Hit $0.007 (x2.5) * Cache Miss $0.22 (x1.5) * Output $0.66 (x2.25) DeepSeek-V4-Pro (off-peak, x2 for peak) * Cache Hit $0.022 (x6) * Cache Miss $0.66 (x1.5) * Output $1.98 (x2.25) Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC Effective from: 16:00, August 16, 2026 (UTC)
I wonder whether all the DeepSeek providers will follow suit or are they going to try to stay competitive with the old prices?
DeepSeek’s cache pricing was always 1/10th the competition.
It’s still cheaper than everybody else.
Re: DeepSeek API Pricing Update
#80Interesting to see that peak hours are work hours in China, night in the US and Europe, and also morning in Europe. So Deepseek's customers are mostly domestic.
Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC For European and US customers this is effectively 2x increase. I think i wll keep using both Flash and Pro as before. EDIT: Misread numbers to believe off-peak kept old prices
~200% increase is marginal to you?