DeepSeek Pricing 2026: Complete Guide to API Costs, Free Tier and Plans
DeepSeek pricing in 2026 spans five tiers: a free web chat at chat.deepseek.com, the flagship DeepSeek V4 Flash API at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens during the 75%-off launch promo (extended through May 31, 2026), the regular V4 Pro rate of $1.74/$3.48 per million tokens after the promo ends, and a free API grant of 5 million tokens for every new developer account. All V4 models ship with a native 1 million token context window at no extra charge, making DeepSeek roughly 35 to 100 times cheaper per token than GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.7. This guide covers every part of DeepSeek pricing […]
