DeepSeek Pricing Change — April 2026
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DeepSeek lowers top-tier pricing 99.2% to $0.42/per million tokens in April 2026

On April 2, 2026, DeepSeek lowered its top plan from $50/per million tokens to $0.42/per million tokens (99.2% lower).

Before & after

Before
$50
Range: Free – $50
After
$0.42
Range: Free – $0.42
Top-tier change -99.2% $50 → $0.42/per million tokens

Current price (live)

Today's range
Free – $0.42/per million tokens
Plans
2
Last verified
Apr 15, 2026
See DeepSeek pricing →

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on April 2, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

api-docs.deepseek.com Official DeepSeek pricing page

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