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DeepSeek

Official pay-as-you-go — the baseline every deal is measured against

DeepSeek's own API: no multiplier, no middleman, no expiry. V4.1 Flash runs $0.15 per million input tokens off-peak and $0.60 per million output tokens, halving the bill for roughly 17 hours a day.

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Tiers

  • Face value — this is the yardstick$10.00 → $10.001x

What the headline leaves out

  • Off-peak is half price: peak is 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday.
  • Cache hits are billed at $0.003 per million tokens off-peak — 50x cheaper than a cache miss.

Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

The reference price. Everything on this site is measured against DeepSeek's own pay-as-you-go rates, because that is the number a visitor can actually go and pay.