
DeepSeek cuts Flash API prices by up to 60% as AI price war heats up
DeepSeek’s latest strategy combines aggressive pricing to win users and peak/off-peak rates to encourage better use of computing capacity.

DeepSeek’s latest strategy combines aggressive pricing to win users and peak/off-peak rates to encourage better use of computing capacity.

More revealingly, the company’s internal testing questionnaire asks users whether the model could fully replace the current DeepSeek V4 Pro online.

Pro output tokens are therefore three times more expensive, while cache-miss input is also priced at three times the Flash rate.