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2026/8/17 19:07 (UTC+8) · Price Update · DeepSeek / ByteDance 💸 DeepSeek peak-tier pricing took effect at 00:00 today (UTC+8); here is where the two BytePlus-relayed legacy snapshots fit in The change follows DeepSeek’s peak/off-peak billing, and APIYI bills at the peak tier at all times with no time-of-day variation — background in the previous update. Seven DeepSeek models are callable today: deepseek-v4-pro, deepseek-v4-pro-0813, deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-0731 run on DeepSeek’s own official relay and are now on the new peak-tier rates; deepseek-v4-flash-260425, deepseek-v4-pro-260425 and deepseek-v4-flash-ga-260731 are relayed from BytePlus (ByteDance’s overseas Volcano Engine). Current rates per 1M tokens (prompt / completion / cache read) — pick whichever fits:
  • deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-flash-0731: $0.44 / $1.32 / $0.0141 —— DeepSeek official relay
  • deepseek-v4-pro, deepseek-v4-pro-0813: $1.32 / $3.96 / $0.044 —— DeepSeek official relay
  • deepseek-v4-flash-ga-260731: $0.44 / $1.32 / $0.0136 —— BytePlus relay
  • deepseek-v4-flash-260425: $0.14 / $0.28 / $0.028 —— BytePlus relay, April snapshot
  • deepseek-v4-pro-260425: $1.74 / $3.48 / $0.15 —— BytePlus relay, April snapshot
The trade-off on the two 260425 snapshots is caching. deepseek-v4-flash-260425 costs roughly a third of the current release on prompt tokens and a fifth on completion tokens, a clear win for batch work with mostly fresh context and little prefix reuse. But its cache read at $0.028 is about twice the $0.0141 of the current release, so long conversations and long system prompts — anything with a high cache-hit rate — end up more expensive. Same shape for deepseek-v4-pro-260425: cheaper completions, pricier prompts and cache reads. Recharge bonuses stack on all of the versions above. For the rate change itself and the peak-window conversion, see the deep dive.
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