DeepSeek V4.1-Flash promises lower memory use and API costs, but buyers should test its performance, compatibility and total ...

Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s current API pricing schedule gives developers a larger off-peak window for running flexible workloads. Peak-rate windows apply only from Monday to Friday, ...

DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API from Aug. 17. Peak hours will run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time, while other hours will be classified as ...

DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability. The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that ...

DeepSeek will stop distinguishing between peak and off-peak API pricing on weekends from Aug. 23, with usage on Saturdays and Sundays charged at off-peak rates, the company said in a notice Saturday.

The numbers are live. As of Sunday at noon ET — 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026 — every production pipeline calling DeepSeek's V4-Flash or V4-Pro API began billing at new rates effective August 16.