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DeepSeek V4 Pro API pricing

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens on DeepSeek's standard tier, and cached input is $0.022. Checked against the official pricing page on October 12, 2026.

Input / 1M$0.66
Cached input / 1M$0.022
Output / 1M$1.98
Context window1M

Off-peak rate. Peak hours cost 2×.

What DeepSeek V4 Pro costs for common workloads

WorkloadMonthly costRank of 20
Support chatbot
60,000 requests · 1,500 in / 300 out
$95.04#7
Document summaries
20,000 requests · 6,000 in / 400 out
$95.04#7
Coding assistant
30,000 requests · 4,000 in / 800 out
$127#7
RAG search
100,000 requests · 2,500 in / 250 out
$214#7

Price it for your own workload

Compared against similar models from other providers.

Start from a use case

1,000 tokens is about 750 English words. Input includes your system prompt, chat history and any retrieved documents.

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$95.04 /mo
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$396 /mo
Claude Opus 5.5
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$720 /mo
Claude Fable 5.1
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$1,800 /mo
GPT-6 Astra
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$1,800 /mo

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