DeepSeek Flash pricing
What DeepSeek Flash costs per million tokens: input, output, cache read and cache write, with batch and long-context rates where the provider publishes them. Every figure is the rate Vigil's proxy bills with, read from the provider's own page.
Prices checked 9 Oct 2026 against api-docs.deepseek.com. All shown rates agreed with the page. DeepSeek bills by UTC hour: the peak rate on weekdays 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC, half that at every other time. Both rates are shown; both were read on the page.
DeepSeek Flash on DeepSeek API
Model id deepseek-flash. Verified against the provider's published price; registry row retrieved 2026-09-11 from api-docs.deepseek.com.
| Applies | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weekdays 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | — |
| weekdays 00:00–01:00 and 04:00–06:00 and 10:00–24:00 UTC | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | — |
| weekend 00:00–24:00 UTC | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | — |
USD per 1M tokens. A dash means the provider publishes no rate for that dimension, so the proxy declines to price it.
- Endpoint classes: global.
- on_demand: the standard rate.
- No long-context tier: the standard rate applies at any prompt size.
Price a DeepSeek Flash call
DeepSeek Flash on DeepSeek API, standard rate, priced now
Cache writes, batch, endpoint class and monthly volume: AI token calculator
Questions
- What does a cache read cost on DeepSeek Flash?
- A cache-read token on DeepSeek API costs $0.006 per 1M tokens, against $0.30 for an ordinary input token. An ordinary input token costs 50 times as much. No cache-write rate is published for this model.
- Does DeepSeek Flash have a batch price?
- No batch rate is published for DeepSeek Flash on DeepSeek API, so the proxy prices every call at the standard rate and does not guess at a discount.
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