Vibe Coding
Tip: DeepSeek Now Charges Half Price Outside Two Weekday Windows, So Schedule Agent Batches Around the Clock
As of 2026-08-16 DeepSeek bills peak rates only during 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Monday to Friday, with off-peak set at exactly 50% of peak for the other roughly 79% of the week including all weekend. V4-Pro runs $1.32/$3.96 per million tokens peak against $0.66/$1.98 off-peak; V4-Flash is $0.44/$1.32 against $0.22/$0.66. Latency is identical, so for any non-interactive agent run this is a free halving: move a nightly pipeline from 09:00 UTC to 11:00 UTC and the bill drops by half.
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