DeepSeek's Post-Sept 10 Pricing: Premium Output, Off-Peak Cache Hits at ¥0.02

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-08

TeortaxesTex summarizes DeepSeek's pricing taking effect September 10, when the current "Intermediate" V4.1 rates expire: off-peak cache hits at ¥0.02, cache misses at ¥1, output at ¥4 per million tokens, with peak hours at double. The read: output priced at a premium, while reads and cache misses revert to pre-hike levels. What succeeds V4.1 remains unknown.

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