DeepSeek
DeepSeek's first-party API serving its open-weight (MIT) DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4 Flash models, with peak and off-peak pricing.
You can halve the listed rates by running outside the weekday peak windows of 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, or on weekends and Chinese public holidays. V4 Flash cached input costs $0.006 per million tokens. The first-party API processes data in China, with no EU residency or GDPR DPA. Other hosts also serve these MIT-licensed models; check their regions separately.
- Headquarters
- 🇨🇳 China
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇨🇳 China (parent: High-Flyer)
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- No / not documented
- Billing
- payg
- Open source
- No
- Website
- www.deepseek.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Model | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 1M tokens | Cached / 1M tokens | Context | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.32 | $3.96 | $0.044 | 1000k | frontieropen weights |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.3 | $1.2 | $0.006 | 1000k | midopen weights |
Prices shown are peak-hour rates (01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Mon-Fri). Off-peak hours, weekends and Chinese public holidays are billed at 50% of these rates. Data is processed in China. The model weights are MIT-licensed on Hugging Face, so the same models are also served by third-party hosts.
Managed alternatives
At 500M input tokens / month, 50M output tokens / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Flash: $2,520/yr estimated.
- DeepInfra · gpt-oss-120b: $324/yr estimated · $2,196/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Nebius Token Factory · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: $1,008/yr estimated · $1,512/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Fireworks AI · gpt-oss-120b: $1,260/yr estimated · $1,260/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Groq · gpt-oss-120b: $1,260/yr estimated · $1,260/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Together AI · gpt-oss-120b: $1,260/yr estimated · $1,260/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace. We compare the selected model or the cheapest listed model in the chosen capability tier. Sharing a tier does not mean equal quality.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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