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DeepSeek V4 Pro API Pricing
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.32 per 1M input tokens and $3.96 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.32 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.13 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.96 |
Verified 2026-10-20 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$5.28
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.231
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$21.12
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$1.42
Cached input is about 90% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for DeepSeek V4 Pro
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only DeepSeek V4 Pro, so the result stays focused on this model.
Input cost
$1.32
Output cost
$3.96
Total
$5.28
Price history
input moved from $2.10 to $1.32 and output moved from $4.40 to $3.96 across 193 daily snapshots.
When to use DeepSeek V4 Pro
Good fit
- reasoning-heavy prompts, planning, analysis, and multi-step tool use
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first