According to CoinMeta, DeepSeek officially announced that the official version of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled to go live in mid-July, and at the same time, a dual-pricing mechanism during peak and off-peak hours will be introduced. During the peak hours from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00 Beijing time, the pricing for API will be doubled from normal times. For the high-performance model deepseek-v4-pro, the cost per million tokens cache hits on normal days is 0.025 yuan, 3.00 yuan for cache misses, and 6.00 yuan for outputs. During peak hours, these prices will be increased to 0.05 yuan, 6.00 yuan, and 12.00 yuan respectively. DeepSeek also mentioned in their platform notice that they plan to raise the overall pricing for API services in the near future, with an expected significant increase. The specific details and implementation timing will be notified separately.