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API economics
DeepSeek V4 drops in July with a pricing shift that will hurt if you code when the sun is up
DeepSeek V4 arrives mid-July with peak-load pricing. The API costs double during business hours, up to $1.74 per million output tokens, but off-peak rates can be a steal for cache-hit workloads.
2026-07-09