DeepSeek V4 Pro API pricing — cost per million tokens
DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.32 per million input tokens and $3.96 per million output tokens on the standard API tier (verified 2026-09-02). Note: Peak-hour price (01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Mon-Fri) since 2026-08-16; off-peak is half: $0.66 / $1.98. Cache-hit input $0.044. 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) | $1.32 | $0.00132 |
| output (completion) | $3.96 | $0.00396 |
What real requests cost on DeepSeek V4 Pro
| workload | input | output | total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message (1K in / 500 out) | $0.00132 | $0.00198 | $0.0033 |
| Long document (100K in / 2K out) | $0.13 | $0.00792 | $0.14 |
| Agent session (500K in / 50K out) | $0.66 | $0.20 | $0.86 |
How DeepSeek V4 Pro pricing compares
On the same chat-message workload, DeepSeek V4 Pro costs 4.1× more than GPT-5.6 Luna (the cheapest tracked model) — capability, latency and context limits are the other side of that trade. Output tokens dominate long generations: at $3.96/Mtok, a 50K-token agent transcript costs $0.20 in output alone. Official rate card: DeepSeek pricing.
Related: DeepSeek V4 Flash pricing · GPT-5.6 Luna pricing · GPT-5.4 nano pricing · release timeline
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