DeepSeek API pricing
DeepSeek V4 Pro, the DeepSeek flagship, costs $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million output tokens. DeepSeek’s other current models, per million input / output tokens: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.30 / $1.20.
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.32 | $0.30 |
| Output | $3.96 | $1.20 |
| Cache read | $0.044 | $0.006 |
US dollars per million tokens. List prices read 12 November 2026 from DeepSeek.
What the film says
- Paying list price for Claude?
- Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7, +4 more models
- $1.60 instead of $4.00. Per million input tokens on Claude Opus 5.5.
- 9 of 9 models on sale pass the check against the same model at its maker. The results and the script are public: aigrow.gg/ai-api/genuine-models
- API credit$100 of API credit for $25. Start today.
Per token and per pass
The list price per million tokens, then how many of the benchmark’s 20 office tasks each model passed and what 1,000 passing answers cost, failed runs included.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Tasks passed | 1,000 passes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 ProFlagships | $1.32 | $3.96 | $0.044 | 1M | 18 of 20 | $5.14 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashSmall and fast | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1M | 18 of 20 | $1.05 |
To see what your own workload costs on every model, use the LLM API cost calculator.
DeepSeek prices the 2 current models on our list from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.30 in and $1.20 out per million tokens to DeepSeek V4 Pro at $1.32 in and $3.96 out. On the AIGROW small-business benchmark DeepSeek V4.1 Flash shared the best record, 18 of 20 tasks passed, at the lowest cost: $1.05 per thousand passes.
What three everyday jobs cost
1,000 runs of each job at list price. The token counts are ours; the prices are DeepSeek’s.
| Model | 1,000 × support reply | 1,000 × document summary | 1,000 × agent task |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $5.54 | $36.96 | $28.16 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $1.38 | $8.70 | $7.02 |
- Support reply
- A 3,000-token prompt (the ticket, the thread so far and a policy excerpt) and a 400-token answer.
- Document summary
- A 40-page document of about 25,000 tokens in, a 1,000-token summary out.
- Agent task
- Ten steps that read 80,000 tokens between them, 70,000 of them context repeated from step to step and served from cache, and write 3,000.
The small print
What DeepSeek’s pricing pages add to the headline rates.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Peak-hour rate, recorded as the list price. Off-peak (all hours outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays) is half: $0.66 / $1.98, cache hit $0.022. Peak and off-peak pricing started 2026-08-16. API name deepseek-v4-pro serves DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 (V4 first shipped 2026-04-24). Max output 384K.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- Peak-hour rate, recorded as the list price. Off-peak is half: $0.15 / $0.60, cache hit $0.003. API name deepseek-flash, which serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 since 2026-10-17 at unchanged prices. Max output 384K.
A price page for each DeepSeek model
Head to head
The comparisons with a DeepSeek model on one side, each with both prices and the three jobs costed on each.
- Mistral Large 4 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
- DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Qwen3.8 Max vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
- GLM-5.3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
- MiniMax M3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Qwen3.8 Flash vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- Grok 4.3 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Comparisons with an earlier generation
Where the prices come from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Weigh DeepSeek against every other maker
The price list sets the models of 11 makers side by side: input and output price per million tokens, and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date · See the LLM leaderboard