ME News reports that, as monitored by Beating on June 29 (UTC+8), DeepSeek officially announced that the official release of DeepSeek V4 is scheduled for mid-July, alongside the introduction of a peak-off-peak pricing mechanism. During peak hours—daily from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00 Beijing Time—the API pricing will be doubled compared to regular rates. Under the new pricing structure, for the high-performance model deepseek-v4-pro, the regular rate per million tokens is ¥0.025 for input cache hits, ¥3.00 for input cache misses, and ¥6.00 for output. During peak hours, these rates will increase to ¥0.05, ¥6.00, and ¥12.00, respectively. For the lightweight model deepseek-v4-flash, the regular rate per million tokens is ¥0.02 for input cache hits, ¥1.00 for input cache misses, and ¥2.00 for output. During peak hours, these rates will adjust to ¥0.04, ¥2.00, and ¥4.00, respectively. Users will be notified via email 24 hours prior to any actual pricing changes. (Source: BlockBeats)