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DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek's deepseek-v4-pro, 1M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off DeepSeek's own pricing page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.

Pricing

The headline prices are DeepSeek's peak rate, which applies only Monday to Friday 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC: 35 of the 168 hours in a week (21%). The rest of the time every rate is the off-peak one above. Source: the same pricing page, checked September 14, 2026.

At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $2.112: $1.32 for input and $0.792 for output, at the peak prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.

Where this price sits

$1.32 per 1M input tokens is the 33rd cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 2nd of DeepSeek's 2. Output costs 3.0× the input price.

Mentioned in

4 posts on this site cite DeepSeek V4 Pro. The sentence is the post's own, taken from where it links here.

• Same List Price, Different Bill: Five Pairs of LLM APIs Where the Workload Decides What You Pay · September 30, 2026

  Muse Spark 1.3 (verified September 16, 2026) lists at $1.25 / $4.25 and DeepSeek V4 Pro (verified September 28, 2026) at $1.32 / $3.96: input 5.6% apart, output 7.3% apart, in opposite directions.

• Prompt Caching Is Not 10% Everywhere: What a Cache Hit Costs Across Eight Providers · September 16, 2026

  DeepSeek V4 Pro charges $0.044 per million cached tokens on $1.32 of input, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.006 on $0.30.

• The Second Price List: What Batch, Flex, Priority and Data-Sharing Discounts Cost Across Seven Providers · September 16, 2026

  DeepSeek's second list is a clock rather than a queue: every rate is half outside its peak window, "01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday", so DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.66 / $1.98 for 133 of the 168 hours of the week against a list price of $1.32 / $3.96.

• Five Things Decide What You Pay for a Model, and Only One of Them Is the Model · September 15, 2026

  DeepSeek V4 Pro lists at $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million output tokens.

Where else this model is served

2 other hosts serve DeepSeek V4 Pro. Across DeepSeek and those hosts the input price spans 1.0×, within the 1.15× that this site treats as the same price. Each figure links to the host's own pricing page, with the date it was checked.

• September 14, 2026 · OpenRouter · change of this site's criterion · figure shown here up 2.0×

  The figure this site publishes for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on OpenRouter changes from $0.66 / $1.98 to $1.32 / $3.96 per million tokens. This is a correction of our own reading, not a price change by DeepSeek or by any host. DeepSeek's own pricing page defines $1.32 / $3.96 as the peak rate and $0.66 / $1.98 as the off-peak rate, half of it, applying outside Monday to Friday 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC. Every reading behind the old figure had been taken off-peak. Read-only probes on September 11 and 14, 2026 (02:30, 07:30, 12:30 UTC) showed that DeepSeek's endpoint on OpenRouter follows that clock: $1.32 / $3.96 during peak hours, $0.66 / $1.98 the rest of the time. Since this site publishes the maker's list price without discounts, the row now shows the peak rate, which is also what Together AI and Fireworks AI charge at all hours; the off-peak rate is recorded on the row and shown as a note. The peak rate applies 35 of the 168 hours in a week.

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• September 8, 2026 · OpenRouter · change of this site's criterion · figure shown here up 1.1×

  The figure this site published for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on OpenRouter rose 13.6% on September 8, 2026, from $0.5808 / $1.7424 to $0.66 / $1.98 per million tokens. DeepSeek did not change any price. At the time the published figure was the cheapest healthy OpenRouter endpoint, and that endpoint switched from Alibaba to DeepSeek's own: DeepSeek's endpoint read $0.66 / $1.98 on both days, while Alibaba's went from $0.5808 / $1.7424 to $1.122 / $3.366 and has since been seen at both figures again. This entry originally described Alibaba's move as a 12% discount ending; that reading was wrong. Both readings were also taken outside DeepSeek's peak hours, so $0.66 / $1.98 was the maker's off-peak rate, not its list price. This rule was replaced on September 9 (maker's list price) and again on September 14 (see openrouter-deepseek-v4-pro-tariff-rule). Kept because the number on this site did change that day; it was our rule, not a host's price.

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Specifications

It returns up to 384K tokens per response, against a context window of 1M tokens.

Questions about DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing

How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro cost per million tokens?

$1.32 per 1M input tokens and $3.96 per 1M output tokens, read on DeepSeek's official pricing page on October 1, 2026.

What does a cached input token cost on DeepSeek V4 Pro?

$0.044 per 1M cached input tokens, 3.3% of the $1.32 input price.

DeepSeek had scheduled the end of V4 Pro API service for September 14, 2026 and withdrew it: service continues with unchanged billing.

Verified October 1, 2026 against DeepSeek's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. How the data is checked.

Other DeepSeek models with a verified price

• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.30 in · $1.20 out

Cheaper or equally priced alternatives

Current models with an input price at or below $1.32 per 1M tokens.

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• Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning) xAI $1.25 in · $2.50 out

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