Frequently asked questions
How much does the DeepSeek V4 Pro API cost?
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.003625 per million (99% off). Note: Cached-input price is DeepSeek’s cache-hit rate.
How much does a typical chat message cost with DeepSeek V4 Pro?
A short chat message (about 500 input and 250 output tokens) costs roughly $0.0004 with DeepSeek V4 Pro. At 1,000 such requests a day, that is about $13.05 per month.
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro cheap compared to similar models?
DeepSeek V4 Pro has the #9 cheapest input rate of the 26 models we track. On a mixed workload (10K input / 2K output), it costs $0.0061 per request, versus $0.0044 for GPT-5.6 Luna and $0.0065 for GPT-5 mini.
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Last updated 2026-08-03. Prices verified againstDeepSeek's official pricing page; see themethodology.