deepseek-flash API pricing
DeepSeek · checked against the official price page on 2026-10-08
Current price
CNY per million tokens. This model has time-of-day pricing, written peak / off-peak.
| Input (cache miss) | 2 / 1 |
|---|---|
| Input (cache hit) | 0.04 / 0.02 |
| Output | 8 / 4 |
International USD: input $0.15 / $0.30, output $0.60 / $1.20 (off-peak / peak); peak = 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC on weekdays
What it costs
At the prices above, with no cache hits and half of calls at peak hours.
| 10M input and 2M output tokens a month | 27 CNY |
|---|---|
| 100M input and 20M output tokens a month | 270 CNY |
| 1000M input and 200M output tokens a month | 2,700 CNY |
A single call with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about ¥0.006; ten thousand such calls cost about ¥60.
For your own usage: API cost calculator
Where it ranks
Ordered by the monthly cost of 100M input and 20M output tokens, cheapest first, deepseek-flash is number 2 of 11 models.
| 1. Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash | 136 CNY / month |
|---|---|
| 2. DeepSeek deepseek-flash | 270 CNY / month |
| 3. Qwen qwen3.7-plus | 360 CNY / month |
| 4. MiniMax MiniMax-M3 | 378 CNY / month |
| 5. MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7 | 378 CNY / month |
| 6. DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro | 1,080 CNY / month |
| 7. Kimi kimi-k2.7-code | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 8. Kimi kimi-k2.6 | 1,190 CNY / month |
| 9. Zhipu GLM-5.3 | 1,360 CNY / month |
| 10. Qwen qwen3.8-max | 1,920 CNY / month |
| 11. Kimi kimi-k3 | 4,000 CNY / month |
Other DeepSeek models
- deepseek-v4-pro: ¥4.5–9 input, ¥13.5–27 output
DeepSeek against other vendors
DeepSeek price changes
DeepSeek V4-Pro launched at a list price of ¥12 input (cache miss) / ¥24 output, with a 75% launch discount (¥3 / ¥6). source
DeepSeek cut cache-hit input prices across the lineup to a tenth of launch levels: ¥0.02 for V4-Flash, ¥0.025 for V4-Pro. source
DeepSeek said V4-Pro would stay permanently at a quarter of its list price after the promotion — ¥3 input / ¥6 output (about $0.435 / $0.87). source
DeepSeek introduced peak/off-peak API pricing: weekday 9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing time are peak; off-peak is half price. V4 Pro output ¥27 peak / ¥13.5 off-peak; V4 Flash output ¥9 / ¥4.5. source · our coverage
DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash and said it planned to route V4 Pro requests to the new model at Flash prices. source · our coverage