DeepSeek Updates API Pricing: Holidays and Make-up Weekends Now Charged at Off-Peak Rates All Day

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released new API peak and off-peak pricing rules, stating that make-up work weekends and Chinese public holidays are charged at off-peak rates all day. According to the 2026 holiday schedule, Mid-Autumn Festival runs from September 25 to 27, and National Day runs from October 1 to 7, with September 20 and October 10 as workdays.

DeepSeek launched its peak-valley pricing on August 17, and since August 23, Saturdays and Sundays are charged at off-peak rates all day. The platform offers two models: deepseek-flash and deepseek-v4-pro, supporting thinking mode, JSON output, Tool Calls, and Anthropic API.

For deepseek-flash, off-peak input (cache hit) costs 0.02 yuan per million tokens, and output costs 4 yuan; peak rates are 0.04 yuan and 8 yuan. For deepseek-v4-pro, off-peak input (cache hit) is 0.15 yuan and output is 13.5 yuan; peak rates are 0.30 yuan and 27 yuan.