[DeepSeek API Price Adjustment Announcement, Effective August 17] According to Daily Economic News, DeepSeek has released an API price adjustment announcement, updating the pricing for the DeepSeek API with a peak-valley pricing model. The price during off-peak hours will be half of the peak-hour price. Peak hours are from 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing Time (all other times are off-peak hours). The new pricing will take effect at 00:00 Beijing Time on August 17, 2026. The maximum price for deepseek-v4-pro during peak hours will reach 27 yuan per million tokens output.