DeepSeek Raises Prices by Up to 4x
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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, announced today that it will be significantly increasing the prices of its V4 models by up to four times. The price hike comes into effect on August 16, and the changes are part of the company's new peak and off-peak pricing system designed to optimize computing resource allocation. DeepSeek V4 Pro's price, which was originally set at $0.87 per million output tokens, will skyrocket to $3.96 during peak hours, a more than fourfold increase.
Off-peak pricing, which occurs between 11:00 PM and 3:00 AM, will see a less severe price rise to $1.98 per million output tokens. DeepSeek's cheaper V4 Flash model will also see an increase, with its peak-hour rate rising from $0.28 to $1.32 per million output tokens and its off-peak rate from $0.14 to $0.66 per million output tokens.
Despite the price increase, DeepSeek's V4 Pro remains cheaper than several competing flagship AI models, such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which costs around $15 per million output tokens, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, priced at $30 per million output tokens. However, OpenAI's lower-cost GPT-5.6 Luna, priced at $1.20 per million output tokens, is slightly more affordable than DeepSeek's V4 Flash during peak hours.
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