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DeepSeek pricing: every plan and the API
Every DeepSeek plan DeepSeek sells, in its own words and checked September 28, 2026, beside the API's price per token and what one typical message costs on each.
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Short answer
DeepSeek's site lists no paid chat plan (checked September 28, 2026): it offers its chat and a pay-per-token API, where off-peak rates are half the peak ones. At the prices of the endpoints llmwise uses, a typical DeepSeek V4 Pro message costs $0.0038; on llmwise Pro, V4 Pro has up to 250 messages a month.
Sources: DeepSeek and DeepSeek API Docs: Models & Pricing, checked .
Every DeepSeek plan and its price
DeepSeek's site lists no paid chat plan, checked September 28, 2026.
DeepSeek's API, per message
Per million tokens in and out, from llmwise's catalog (the price of the OpenRouter endpoints llmwise uses, not DeepSeek's own API), and a typical message: 4,000 tokens in, 700 out. Beside each, its count on llmwise Pro ($20).
| Model | API price per million tokens (in / out) | A typical message | On llmwise Pro | A message on llmwise Pro, if the month goes to it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.44 / $2.90 | $0.0038 | Up to 250 a month | $0.08 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.17 / $0.60 | $0.0011 | 60 a day | A daily count |
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
What else DeepSeek says about DeepSeek's prices
“Chat with DeepSeek: Use API Platform”
Source: DeepSeek
“Off-peak rates are half of the peak rates. Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays.”
“1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE MISS): OFF-PEAK: $0.15: $0.66”
“1M OUTPUT TOKENS: OFF-PEAK: $0.6: $1.98”
DeepSeek's plans, one by one
Questions
Is there a DeepSeek subscription?
We found none on DeepSeek's own site (checked September 28, 2026): it offers "Chat with DeepSeek" and its API platform, which is priced per token.
What does the DeepSeek API cost?
DeepSeek's docs price V4.1 Flash and V4 Pro per million tokens, with off-peak rates half the peak ones; the lines quoted on this page are the off-peak ones. llmwise's catalog lists what its OpenRouter endpoints charge instead.
How much DeepSeek does an llmwise plan include?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is an everyday model on llmwise: 60 messages a day on Pro, 120 on Max.
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