DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.59 per million words.
DeepSeek lists it at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on DeepSeek’s pricing page, read 4:40 PM Eastern, Oct 7, 2026, and at $0.15 and $0.60 outside its peak hours. The page says: “Peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays.” It bills about 1,131 tokens for a thousand English words, so a million words, three in for every one out, costs $0.59.
- Maker
- DeepSeek
- Input
- $0.30 per million tokens
- Output
- $1.20 per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.006 per million tokens
- Tokens for 1,000 words
- 1,131, measured by Brass on Oct 7, 2026
- Source
- DeepSeek’s pricing page
In the Brass chat it is served by three US companies (Together, BaseTen and Parasail), which charge DeepSeek’s full rate, $0.30 in and $1.20 out, at every hour, with no off-peak price. So it costs $0.375 in and $1.50 out per million tokens at any hour, that rate plus 25%, shown on every receipt.
Price history
| From | Per million words | Per million tokens, in / out |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.59 | $0.30 / $1.20 |
We began tracking DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Oct 7, 2026.