DeepSeek Peak Hours & Pricing

Visual timeline and real-time tracker for DeepSeek API peak vs. off-peak pricing in your local timezone.

Local:Sun, 10/25, 00:30:57

UTC:17:30:57

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Peak windows:None (All-day off-peak)

Off-peakPeak

UTC Peak: 01:00–04:00 & 06:00–10:00 (Mon–Fri). All other hours are 50% off.

Chinese public holidays are off-peak all day. The published 2026 State Council schedule is excluded; years without an announced schedule (2027 onwards, published each November) are not yet excluded. DeepSeek pricing docs

Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)

Token Type	Off-peak (-50%)	Peak
deepseek-v4-pro
Input (cache hit)	$0.022	$0.044
Input (cache miss)	$0.660	$1.320
Output	$1.980	$3.960
deepseek-v4.1-flash
Input (cache hit)	$0.003	$0.006
Input (cache miss)	$0.150	$0.300
Output	$0.600	$1.200
deepseek-v4-flash / vision-exp
Input (cache hit)	$0.007	$0.014
Input (cache miss)	$0.220	$0.440
Output	$0.660	$1.320

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Output

Peak$1.4740

Off-peak$0.7370

Savings

-$0.7370-50%

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