DeepSeek is steeply raising the prices for its flagship V4 models, bringing the low-cost provider’s rates closer to those of major artificial intelligence rivals. A new peak-hour pricing will increase the Chinese company’s rates by more than four times from the current levels, according to a post on its website Thursday. The price increases will take effect on Aug. 16. Going forward, users will pay $1.32 for 1 million output tokens during peak hours, and half that during off-peak hours, for the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model. That’s up from $0.28 for 1 million tokens previously. The increase still leaves DeepSeek’s pricing below that of some of its main competitors. Anthropic PBC’s state-of-the-art Fable 5 service sets that pricing at $50. DeepSeek gave an advance warning last week that it would hike prices, without specifying the exact increases. DeepSeek’s V4-Pro model will cost $3.96 for 1 million tokens at peak hours and half that at non-peak hours, it said. That’s up from the current $0.87 per million tokens. The Hangzhou-based AI lab said it’s revising and adjusting the pricing “to allocate resources more reasonably.” The dynamic pricing strategy is designed to encourage developers and enterprises to shift their work to less congested periods. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/08/13/deepseek-increases-prices-for-ai-services-by-multiple-times/ submitted by /u/fortune
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