DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

Posted by fagnerbrack 9 hours ago

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update(api-docs.deepseek.com)

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HarHarVeryFunny 5 hours ago|

Some of the US companies do the same, but rather than "off-peak" hours they price lower for "batch" jobs with non-committal response times.

The same motivation of course - the GPUs have a finite service lifetime, so to maximize revenue you need to keep them busy 24x7.

xbmcuser 5 hours ago||

They benefit from a strong captive market because Chinese firms cannot use Nvidia chips and are legally barred from processing data abroad, forcing them to rely on domestic infrastructure.

snake_doc 5 hours ago|

lol what no, AI competition is super competitive in China; bytedance has 50% of the inference market and mostly serves from outside of China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/microsoft...

Bytedance which runs China’s most popular Doubao AI chatbot; is spending $70B in CapEx this year, most of it outside of China (Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, etc; and they are allowed to lease NVIDIA chips). This is roughly 50% of Microsoft CapEx.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinas-byted...

poly2it 8 hours ago||

That's a hefty increase. Flash pricing during peak is now 1.32/M out, compared to the current 0.28/M, which in turn is a quite a bit above the cheapest provider at 0.16/M.

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...

squidbeak 4 hours ago|

You don't mention the off-peak pricing which is half that. Most western workplaces will enjoy the cheaper prices.

poly2it 3 hours ago||

Yes, I explicitly said during peak. It's the data point I found most interesting, as it's almost an order of magnitude more expensive than their competitors.

kubafu 4 hours ago||

Are we gonna see "we work those unusual hours because that's when LLMs are cheap"?

sebastiennight 7 hours ago||

With proprietary labs lowering their prices and Deepseek raising theirs over time, wouldn't it possible to extrapolate a graph to look at where the terminal frontier-model million-token-cost asymptotes to?

dakolli 5 hours ago|

off of one historical price change, no.

mateenah 7 hours ago||

This is good for other competitors I guess. People rarely calculate the bump in price but the fact that price is increasing might bring them to other vendors.

cheesecakegood 7 hours ago||

I wonder if this is enough to push people back onto Luna with their comparative price drop

eastbound 7 hours ago|

After the big onshore migrations (startup people migrating to the SV),

The big Covid migrations (startup prople migrating to the countryside),

Will we see the big AI migrations (people travelling to where AI is the cheapest)?

flakiness 3 hours ago||

Now Baseten's pricing is cheaper than the official one? Probably won't last, but still interesting.

https://www.baseten.co/pricing/

If anyone has tried Baseten versions of these Chinese frontier models, let me know what you found.

ChrisArchitect 4 hours ago|

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285160

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