DeepSeek adds vision model, exempts weekends from peak pricing
Peak-hours footnote now specifies peak pricing applies Monday through Friday only, so weekends are always billed at off-peak rates; previously the schedule applied every day.; New deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model added to the pricing table, priced identically to deepseek-v4-flash ($0.22 off-peak / $0.44 peak per 1M cache-miss input tokens, $0.66 off-peak / $1.32 peak per 1M output tokens, 2500 c
What changed
Peak-hours footnote now specifies peak pricing applies Monday through Friday only, so weekends are always billed at off-peak rates; previously the schedule applied every day.
New deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model added to the pricing table, priced identically to deepseek-v4-flash ($0.22 off-peak / $0.44 peak per 1M cache-miss input tokens, $0.66 off-peak / $1.32 peak per 1M output tokens, 2500 concurrency); a new footnote states images are converted to tokens by dimension and billed as input tokens, and FIM Completion is not supported.
Before and after
Aug 17, 2026 vs Aug 24, 2026Peak-hours footnote now specifies peak pricing applies Monday through Friday only, so weekends are always billed at off-peak rates; previously the schedule applied every day.
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