DeepSeek raising API prices by up to 1,100% starting Aug. 16

DeepSeek is raising the prices it charges developers to entree its V4-Flash and V4-Pro models, with increases ranging from 50% to much than 1,100% depending connected the model, token type, and clip of use. DeepSeek said the updated pricing goes unrecorded astatine 16:00 UTC connected August 16.

The terms hike comes alongside a caller highest and off-peak billing structure. Peak hours are defined arsenic 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, with off-peak rates acceptable astatine fractional the highest rates, according to DeepSeek's pricing page.

For V4-Flash, output tokens volition outgo $1.32 per cardinal during highest hours and $0.66 per cardinal during off-peak hours, up from the existent level complaint of $0.28 per million, the institution said. V4-Pro output tokens volition emergence to $3.96 per cardinal astatine highest and $1.98 per cardinal off-peak, compared with the existent $0.87 per million.

Input token prices are besides climbing. V4-Flash cache-miss input tokens volition emergence to $0.44 per cardinal astatine highest hours, up from $0.14, portion V4-Pro cache-miss input tokens volition summation to $1.32 per cardinal astatine peak, up from $0.435, DeepSeek said. The institution said it is adjusting pricing "to allocate resources much reasonably," and that the tiered operation is intended to displacement developer workloads toward little congested periods, according to Fortune.

Even astatine the caller highest rates, DeepSeek's prices stay beneath those of immoderate competitors. Anthropic's Fable 5 charges $50 per cardinal output tokens, according to Fortune.

DeepSeek released V4-Flash earlier this month, with probe steadfast Artificial Analysis uncovering it was the slightest costly well-known AI exemplary to tally globally astatine the clip — costing astir 3 cents per benchmark test. The Hangzhou-based startup had antecedently offered a 75% promotional discount connected V4-Pro done May 5, underscoring however dramatically its pricing strategy has shifted successful caller months.

DeepSeek gave beforehand informing past week that a terms summation was coming, without specifying the nonstop amounts. The institution has besides begun laying groundwork for an IPO and closed its archetypal extracurricular backing round, which topped $7 billion.