Svmuu News: Several developers have confirmed that they have received upgrade notification emails from DeepSeek. The emails indicate that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July, and the API pricing policy will be adjusted simultaneously to introduce a peak-off-peak pricing mechanism, with the aim of allocating resources more reasonably and improving service stability. According to the email, the regular prices for the V4 Pro and V4 Flash models will remain unchanged, but API prices during peak hours will be adjusted to twice the regular rate. Peak hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily.
Specifically, for V4 Pro during peak hours, the input price for a cache hit is 0.05 yuan per million tokens, the input price for a cache miss is 6 yuan per million tokens, and the output price is 12 yuan per million tokens. For V4 Flash, the input price for a cache hit during peak hours is 0.04 yuan per million tokens, the input price for a cache miss is 2 yuan per million tokens, and the output price is 4 yuan per million tokens. (Blue Whale Technology)