Deepseek V4 Pro API Pricing

These are the tracked rates, not a live quote. Hosted-provider choice, region, long-context tiers, caching, batch discounts, and temporary promotions can change the actual bill. Open-weight availability does not mean hosted inference is free. Workload examples assume the listed standard input and output rates, with no cache hits or discounts.

DeepSeek pricing catalog — check current offerings and rate tiers. This catalog may not list historical models or third-party hosted endpoints.

Official release and model references

These references document the model and its release; not every reference is a pricing table. Confirm the applicable endpoint and billing tier with your inference provider before purchase.

• api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
• www.vals.ai/models/deepseek_v4_pro_0813
• artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-pro

Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Deepseek V4 Pro.

In AI IQ's scoring, Deepseek V4 Pro's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 1.328 (measured from real benchmark runs), giving an effective cost of $7.01 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #97 of 153 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.

Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Deepseek V4 Pro (IQ 123), or better.