A rate per million tokens is not a budget. The calculator takes your request volume, prompt size and cache hit rate and gives you a monthly figure.
DeepSeek V4 Pro API pricing (October 2026)
Off-peak rate; bills 2x during Beijing peak hours (09:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 UTC+8, Monday to Friday, except Chinese public holidays).
What it costs at real volumes
A chat-shaped workload: 800 input tokens and 300 output tokens per request, no caching, no batch.
Specifications
- Provider
- DeepSeek
- Context window
- 1.0M tokens
- Max output
- 384K tokens
- Tier
- Flagship
- Status
- GA
- Blended $/1M (3:1)
- $0.990
- Cache break-even, caching each turn
- 0%, caching always saves
- Prices verified
- 30 Oct 2026
Source: DeepSeek pricing. Finitizer is not affiliated with DeepSeek.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro cost per 1M tokens?
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.660 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens at DeepSeek list prices. Output is 3.0x the input rate, so the input:output ratio of a workload drives the real cost more than the headline price.
Does DeepSeek V4 Pro support prompt caching?
Yes. Cached input is billed at $0.022 per million tokens, 30x cheaper than uncached input. There is no cache-write premium, so caching is never a net loss.
What is the batch discount for DeepSeek V4 Pro?
DeepSeek V4 Pro does not offer a batch pricing tier.
What is DeepSeek V4 Pro's context window?
1.0M tokens of context with up to 384K output tokens per request. A larger context window raises the ceiling on what you can send, not the price per token, but filling it on every request is one of the most common causes of an unexpected bill.
Running DeepSeek V4 Pro in production?
Finitizer Tokenomics reads what this model actually costs you from your own bills and exports, shows which workload, team or API key is spending it, flags a spike or a new spend source the day your data shows it, and forecasts where the month will land.
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