DeepSeek API
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API Pricing 2026 — Cost per 1 Million Tokens
Current DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API pricing from DeepSeek per 1 million tokens, including input, output and cached-token rates when available.
| Model | Rate | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Official DeepSeek V4.1 Flash release, a native multimodal model served by the DeepSeek API under deepseek-flash. 1M context · max output 384K · thinking/non-thinking · vision · JSON, tool calls, Responses API and Anthropic API · 552B MoE, 8B input-active / 16B output-active. Official V4.1 Flash pricing. Peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC Monday through Friday; all other hours are off-peak at half the peak rates. The prior temporary beta model ID has been superseded by deepseek-flash. | Input — cache hit, peak | $0.006 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input — cache miss, peak | $0.3 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Output — peak | $1.2 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input — cache hit, off-peak | $0.003 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Input — cache miss, off-peak | $0.15 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Output — off-peak | $0.6 |
How API token cost is calculated
Multiply the number of tokens by the provider rate, then divide by 1,000,000.
cost = tokens × price per 1M ÷ 1,000,000
Example: 250,000 input tokens at $2 / 1M = $0.50.
AI Price History
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Input — cache hit, peak $0.014 → $0.006
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Input — cache miss, peak $0.44 → $0.3
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Output — peak $1.32 → $1.2
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Input — cache hit, off-peak $0.007 → $0.003
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Input — cache miss, off-peak $0.22 → $0.15
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — Output — off-peak $0.66 → $0.6