DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro with Upgraded Agent Capabilities and Peak/Off-peak Pricing

On August 13, DeepSeek released the official V4-Pro-0813 API. The model achieves massive improvements in agentic benchmarks and supports a 1 million token context. Simultaneously, the introduction of a dynamic peak/off-peak pricing strategy has caused API costs to multiply during high-demand periods, sparking widespread controversy in the developer community over unpredictable billing.

已确认

• 模型发布: DeepSeek officially announced the DeepSeek-V4-Pro model, launching V4-Pro-0813 on its API pricing page and Hugging Face. The model supports a 1 million token context, utilizes FP8 and 8-bit quantization technologies, and features flexible inference intensity controls.
• 性能提升: According to official reports and circulating benchmark results, V4-Pro's scores have surged across multiple Agent benchmarks such as Terminal-Bench 2.1, CyberGym, and DeepSWE compared to the preview version. Commentators suggest its performance now rivals open-source SOTA models and is closing in on top-tier closed-source models.
• 定价策略: The base input price is $0.435 per million tokens, and the output price is $0.87 per million tokens. Official peak and off-peak pricing strategies have also been launched, with the new rules taking effect on August 16.

尚未确认

• 模型权重: Hugging Face has not yet opened downloads for the V4-Pro-0813 model weights, and the official team has not released tweets or news specifying their open-source plans.
• 价格涨幅争议: Reports vary regarding the exact scale of peak-hour price hikes. Some users leaked that base off-peak prices nearly doubled, with peak-hour fees doubling again on top of that. Others complained about a 12x price explosion during peak hours, while another tweet indicated a flagship price surge of up to 355% (jumping from $0.87 to $3.96).

为什么重要

• 后训练能力检验: Commentators note that DeepSeek V4 Pro's performance will define the strength of Chinese AI labs in the post-training phase.
• 成本与需求博弈: The highly disruptive base pricing strategy, combined with extreme dynamic peak billing, has been jokingly dubbed a "demand-destroying" pricing model by some developers. This signals a strategic shift in the era of compute subsidies for LLM APIs, posing severe challenges for cost control in applications heavily reliant on APIs.

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• Episode 1: DeepSeek V4 Pro Launch Imminent, API and Timeline Leaked(2026-08-11, 5 posts)
• Episode 2: DeepSeek V4 Specs and Pricing Leak Spark Debate(2026-08-11, 5 posts)
• Episode 3: DeepSeek Launches V4-Pro with Upgraded Agent Capabilities and Peak/Off-peak Pricing(2026-08-12, 52 posts)
• Episode 4: DeepSeek V4 Pro Reviews Underwhelm: Marginal Gains Despite Larger Size(2026-08-13, 17 posts)
• Episode 5: DeepSeek-V4-Pro Revealed: Near GPT-5.6 Performance at a Fraction of the Cost(2026-08-13, 2 posts)

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