benchrDeepSeek
DeepSeek V4-Pro
DeepSeek · frontier-open. Frontier-grade open-weight coding.
The published record
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- API identifier
deepseek-v4-pro- Context window
- 1MtokensSource
- Maximum output
- 384KtokensSource
- Input
- $1.32per 1M tokensSource
- Output
- $3.96per 1M tokensSource
- Released
- April 24, 2026Source
- License
- MIT
Record verified August 28, 2026
What the record says
UPDATED 2026-08-28: DeepSeek raised API prices and introduced peak/off-peak billing effective 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Cache-miss input went from a flat $0.435 to $1.32 peak / $0.66 off-peak per 1M tokens, output from $0.87 to $3.96 / $1.98, and cache-hit input from $0.003625 to $0.044 / $0.022 - the steepest line on the sheet at roughly twelve times the old cache-hit rate. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday. DeepSeek also shipped a V4-Pro GA update on August 13, 2026 with a new provider-reported benchmark table (Terminal Bench 2.1 87.9, HLE 42.7 without tools / 60.0 with tools, NL2Repo 61.5, CyberGym 83.3, DeepSWE 62.7, Toolathlon-Verified 74.1, DSBench-Hard 67.2); those are DeepSeek's own numbers, not benchr tests. The April model-card figures are retained as published. Open weights, MIT.
What has moved
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Price changed
Cache-miss input rose from a flat $0.435 to $1.32 peak / $0.66 off-peak per 1M tokens, output from $0.87 to $3.96 / $1.98, and cache-hit input from $0.003625 to $0.044 / $0.022. DeepSeek replaced flat API pricing with peak/off-peak billing at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday; all other hours bill at half the peak rate. The pricing figures here are the peak (list) rates. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing (read 2026-08-28).
Released
DeepSeek V4-Pro launched April 24, 2026. MIT license. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
Which one to use
The rest of the family, with the two numbers that usually decide it. The current model is marked.
| Models | Input | Output | Context window |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4-Flash | $0.44 | $1.32 | 1M |
| DeepSeek V4-Pro This page | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1M |
benchr's read
Worth it for
- Frontier-grade open-weight coding
- Math-heavy work
- Self-hosted production, where the August 2026 API price rise does not apply
Look elsewhere if
- You need vision/multimodal
- You can't manage GPU hosting
Prices, limits, and identifiers above are provider facts. This section is benchr's judgement about them.
What benchr has written about it
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What is not on this page
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- No first-token or tokens-per-second figure is recorded. benchr has not measured it and the provider does not publish one.