DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 pricing

API list price by DeepSeek · checked Oct 23, 2026
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$1.32 / $3.96per 1M tokens in / out
$0.044cache read · −97%
$0.36per task at non-thinking?
#29on OpenRouter by tokens · 988B / week

Price sheetper 1M tokens

Input$1.32list
Output$3.96
Cache read$0.044−97% vs input
Context · max output1M · 384Ktokens
Cheapest host native quote has input above output (fp4). Components are retained as advertised.

Cost per task by effort?

non-thinkingAPI default$0.3610.6
max$0.6741
per taskHumanity's Last Exam
Same price per token at every effort; the bill grows with reasoning tokens. max costs 1.9× non-thinking for +30.4 points.

Where to buy19 providers · per 1M tokens

ProviderInputOutputContext
Wafer$0.25$51M
Ionstream$0.37$2.931M
Alibaba$0.58$1.741M
DekaLLM$0.88$3.801M
Sail Research$0.90$0.581M
Relace$0.90$1.501M
DigitalOcean$1.04$2.091M
DeepInfra$1.30$2.60—
CoreWeave$1.31$3.961M
AtlasCloud$1.32$3.961M
Cloudflare$1.32$3.961M
deepseeklab$1.32$3.96—
Novita$1.32$3.96—
Parasail$1.32$3.961M
Together$1.32$3.961M
SiliconFlow$1.50$3.141M
Venice$1.65$3.301M
Azure$1.91$3.831M
Azure AI Foundry$1.93$3.83—

In DeepSeek's line-upper 1M in / out

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.30 / $1.20−73%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B$0.43 / $1.12−70%
R1 0528$0.39 / $1.63−65%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B$0.68 / $0.80−64%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B$0.70 / $0.80−63%
DeepSeek R1$0.70 / $2.40−43%
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813$1.32 / $3.96this model
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Cheaper for the same workvs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

GPT-6.1 Sol high-10%score ×2.5$0.32
MiMo v2.6 Pro thinkingOpen-63%score ×2.3$0.13
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 maxOpen-26%score ×2.2$0.26
Claude Haiku 5.5 max-40%score ×2.1$0.21
MiniMax M3.1 Flash thinking-38%score ×2.1$0.22

Pricing questions

How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 cost?›

$1.32 per 1M input tokens and $3.96 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.044. One Intelligence Index task costs about $0.36 at the default effort.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 free to use?›

There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.

How much does prompt caching save?›

Cache reads cost $0.044 per 1M, 97% below the input price.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 cheaper than DeepSeek V4 Pro 0424?›

No: $1.32 / $3.96 against $0.43 / $0.87, 264% more per token.

How does effort change the price?›

The price per token is the same at every effort. Higher effort spends more reasoning tokens: a task costs $0.36 at non-thinking, $0.67 at max.

What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813?›

GPT-6.1 Sol at high effort costs -10% per task with a score ×2.5 on Humanity's Last Exam.