Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87.
V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new peak, so $1.98 and $0.66.
Now hold those discount rates against last week’s full price. Off-peak V4-Pro costs $1.98 against an old peak of $0.87.
The new discount is more than double the old undiscounted price. A team that moves every workload to the quiet hours still pays over twice what it paid at lunchtime.
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