DeepSeek V4 Pro API pricing — cost per million tokens
DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74 per million input tokens and $3.48 per million output tokens on the standard API tier (verified 2026-07-05). Compare it in the full pricing table or price your own prompts in the token cost calculator.
DeepSeek V4 Pro price per million tokens
| direction | $ / Mtok | $ / 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| input (prompt) | $1.74 | $0.00174 |
| output (completion) | $3.48 | $0.00348 |
What real requests cost on DeepSeek V4 Pro
| workload | input | output | total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message (1K in / 500 out) | $0.00174 | $0.00174 | $0.00348 |
| Long document (100K in / 2K out) | $0.17 | $0.00696 | $0.18 |
| Agent session (500K in / 50K out) | $0.87 | $0.17 | $1.04 |
How DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing compares
On the same chat-message workload, DeepSeek V4 Pro costs 12× more than DeepSeek V4 Flash (the cheapest tracked model) — capability, latency and context limits are the other side of that trade. Output tokens dominate long generations: at $3.48/Mtok, a 50K-token agent transcript costs $0.17 in output alone. Official rate card: DeepSeek pricing.
Related: DeepSeek V4 Flash pricing · GPT-5.4 nano pricing · Gemini 2.5 Flash pricing · release timeline
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