# DeepSeek API rate board

A live rate board for DeepSeek API pricing. It shows the active peak or off-peak period, the next change, local-time rate periods, current token rates for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and V4 Pro, and the weekly UTC schedule.

URL: https://controlsquare.com/tools/deepseek-api-pricing/

## Current pricing schedule

Peak runs Monday to Friday, 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC. Everything else is off-peak, including all day Saturday and Sunday. Off-peak is exactly 50% of peak.

Chinese public holidays are off-peak. The clock uses the weekly schedule and does not subtract holiday dates.

## Rates per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash:
- Input, cache miss: $0.15 off-peak, $0.30 peak
- Input, cache hit: $0.003 off-peak, $0.006 peak
- Output: $0.60 off-peak, $1.20 peak
- Concurrency: 2,500

DeepSeek V4 Pro:
- Input, cache miss: $0.66 off-peak, $1.32 peak
- Input, cache hit: $0.022 off-peak, $0.044 peak
- Output: $1.98 off-peak, $3.96 peak
- Concurrency: 500

Prices in USD. Tool fees such as web search are separate and do not change with the price window.

Pricing is read from DeepSeek's published model table:
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Image inputs follow its Vision billing rules:
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision#token-usage

Concurrency values come from its rate-limit documentation:
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limit/

Independent tool. Not affiliated with DeepSeek. Prices and limits can change; confirm the final number in your account.