deepseek-v4-pro API pricing
DeepSeek · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-14
Current price
CNY per million tokens. This model has time-of-day pricing, written peak / off-peak.
| Input (cache miss) | 9 / 4.5 |
|---|---|
| Input (cache hit) | 0.3 / 0.15 |
| Output | 27 / 13.5 |
International USD: input $0.66 / $1.32, output $1.98 / $3.96 (off-peak / peak)
What it costs
At the prices above, with no cache hits and half of calls at peak hours.
| 10M input and 2M output tokens a month | ¥108 |
|---|---|
| 100M input and 20M output tokens a month | ¥1,080 |
| 1000M input and 200M output tokens a month | ¥10,800 |
A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about ¥0.0236; ten thousand such calls cost about ¥236.
For your own usage: API cost calculator
Where it ranks
Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, deepseek-v4-pro is number 13 of 26 models. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).
| 1. OpenAI gpt-6-luna | 135 CNY / month |
|---|---|
| 2. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 | 135 CNY / month |
| 3. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash | 136 CNY / month |
| 4. Baidu ERNIE-4.5-Turbo | 144 CNY / month |
| 5. DeepSeek deepseek-flash | 270 CNY / month |
| 6. Qwen qwen3.7-plus | 360 CNY / month |
| 7. MiniMax MiniMax-M3 | 378 CNY / month |
| 8. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7 | 378 CNY / month |
| 9. Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 539 CNY / month |
| 10. Mistral AI Mistral Large | 539 CNY / month |
| 11. Baidu ERNIE-5.1 | 760 CNY / month |
| 12. Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1,010 CNY / month |
| 13. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro | 1,080 CNY / month |
| 14. xAI grok-4.3 | 1,178 CNY / month |
| 15. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 16. Kimi kimi-k2.6 | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 17. Zhipu GLM-5.3 | 1,360 CNY / month |
| 18. Qwen qwen3.8-max | 1,920 CNY / month |
| 19. xAI grok-4.7 | 2,155 CNY / month |
| 20. OpenAI gpt-6.1-sol | 2,693 CNY / month |
| 21. Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 2,693 CNY / month |
| 22. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | 2,963 CNY / month |
| 23. Kimi kimi-k3 | 4,000 CNY / month |
| 24. Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | 5,386 CNY / month |
| 25. OpenAI gpt-6-astra | 13,466 CNY / month |
| 26. Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | 13,466 CNY / month |
Other DeepSeek models
- deepseek-flash: ¥1–2 input, ¥4–8 output
DeepSeek against other vendors
- DeepSeek vs Kimi
- DeepSeek vs Qwen
- DeepSeek vs Zhipu
- DeepSeek vs MiniMax
- DeepSeek vs ERNIE
- DeepSeek vs OpenAI
- DeepSeek vs Claude
- DeepSeek vs Gemini
- DeepSeek vs Grok
- DeepSeek vs Mistral
DeepSeek price changes
DeepSeek V4-Pro launched at a list price of ¥12 input (cache miss) / ¥24 output, with a 75% launch discount (¥3 / ¥6). source
DeepSeek cut cache-hit input prices across the lineup to a tenth of launch levels: ¥0.02 for V4-Flash, ¥0.025 for V4-Pro. source
DeepSeek said V4-Pro would stay permanently at a quarter of its list price after the promotion — ¥3 input / ¥6 output (about $0.435 / $0.87). source
DeepSeek introduced peak/off-peak API pricing: weekday 9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing time are peak; off-peak is half price. V4 Pro output ¥27 peak / ¥13.5 off-peak; V4 Flash output ¥9 / ¥4.5. source · our coverage
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash and said it planned to route V4 Pro requests to the new model at Flash prices. source · our coverage