Aug 17 2026

DeepSeek's peak and off-peak API pricing takes effect, the first time a frontier API has been priced by time of day

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Full rates 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time, half rate outside them, with V4-Pro cached input up 1,100% from the old flat schedule and hard concurrency caps of 500 requests per account. Gateway partners read the structure as peak-capacity management rather than a revenue move.

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