DeepSeek V4 pricing now depends on what time you run it DeepSeek moved its entire API over to peak and off-peak billing at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Output generated by the flagship V4-Pro model now costs $3. 96 per million tokens at peak, and $1.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/akashdas/deepseek-v4-pricing-now-depends-on-what-time-you-run-it-1081)