Direct API pricing comparison
DeepSeek V4 Pro vs DeepSeek V4 Flash
Compare current direct API token prices and estimated monthly workload costs for DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Flash.
2direct models
Pricing only.DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper in 4 of 4 comparable standard workload presets below. This is a pricing comparison only; it does not rank model quality.
| Model | Input | Cached | Output | Context | Max output | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek · Direct API | $1.32 | $0.044 | $3.96 | 1M | 384K | Direct ↗ |
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek · Direct API | $0.44 | $0.014 | $1.32 | 1M | 384K | Direct ↗ |
Same workload, different API bill
These four presets use 30 active days, standard direct rates, no retries, no reasoning-token add-on, no cache writes, and the cached-input percentage shown in each row.
| Standard workload | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek V4 Flash | Lower monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat10,000/day · 2,000 in · 500 out · 25% cached | $1,194.6 | $398.1 | DeepSeek V4 Flash by $796.5 / mo |
| Coding2,000/day · 12,000 in · 1,800 out · 55% cached | $872.78 | $290.66 | DeepSeek V4 Flash by $582.12 / mo |
| Agent1,200/day · 32,000 in · 2,500 out · 65% cached | $921.57 | $306.69 | DeepSeek V4 Flash by $614.88 / mo |
| Documents400/day · 180,000 in · 2,000 out · 15% cached | $2,532.82 | $844.06 | DeepSeek V4 Flash by $1,688.76 / mo |
The main calculator includes batch mode, long-context rules, retries, reasoning tokens, cache writes, and other model-specific pricing logic that a static comparison cannot fully capture.