DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 API Pricing
DeepSeek · Budget · Apache 2.0 · released 2026-04. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-30.
The price we publish for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has changed 22 times since 2026-08-17, most recently by -17.9% on 2026-09-30; it is now the 134th cheapest of 144 Budget models. Buying from Baidu rather than at the rate quoted here lowers the token price by about 51%, for a quantized fp8 build. It holds the FinOps Friendly badge: top-40% Arena quality, top-30% Efficiency, not among the dearest 30%, and no stability flag.
- Input: $0.78 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.57 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.07
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1458 (as of 2026-09-25)
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 market position
On blended price ($1.33 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 7% of Budget models: 134th cheapest of 144. Across every category it is cheaper than 53% of priced text models in the catalogue: 134th cheapest of 285. Its Arena ELO of 1458 ranks 26th of the 68 models that carry one, above 63% of them.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 licence, size and capabilities
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 49B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.78 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $131 – $196 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $181 – $282 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $899 – $971 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $442 – $478 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $440 – $548 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $179 – $211 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $252 – $266 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $638 – $940 |
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 16 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-30 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
Cheapest host: Baidu at $0.39 input / $0.77 output per 1M tokens, 51% below the price we publish on a blended basis (30% input, 70% output). It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, Azure, charges 4.9x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Baidu — fp8 | $0.39 | $0.77 |
| StreamLake (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.78 | $1.57 |
| GMICloud — fp8 | $0.96 | $1.91 |
| DigitalOcean | $1.04 | $2.09 |
| Cloudflare | $1.15 | $2.55 |
| Reka | $1.30 | $2.60 |
| DeepInfra — fp8 | $1.30 | $2.60 |
| Alibaba — fp8 | $1.42 | $2.83 |
| Relace — fp4 | $0.38 | $3.50 |
| SiliconFlow — fp8 | $1.50 | $3.13 |
| Novita — fp8 | $1.60 | $3.20 |
| Venice | $1.65 | $3.30 |
| AtlasCloud — fp4 | $1.68 | $3.38 |
| NextBit — fp8 | $1.74 | $3.48 |
| Parasail — fp8 | $1.74 | $3.48 |
| Azure | $1.91 | $3.83 |
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 price history
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 entered our daily price archive on 2026-08-17, 2026-08-15 being the first day we tracked any model. It listed at $1.32 input / $3.96 output per 1M tokens that day. The price we publish has changed 22 times since then, 4 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-30, was -17.9% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.78 input / $1.57 output. Net of all changes, the blended price is -58.0% against 2026-08-17.
| Date | Old price (in / out) | New price (in / out) | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | $0.95 / $1.91 | $0.78 / $1.57 | -17.9% |
| 2026-09-28 | $0.35 / $0.70 | $0.95 / $1.91 | +173.9% |
| 2026-09-26 | $0.78 / $1.57 | $0.35 / $0.70 | -55.6% |
| 2026-09-25 | $0.94 / $1.87 | $0.78 / $1.57 | -16.4% |
| 2026-09-24 | $0.96 / $1.91 | $0.94 / $1.87 | -2.0% |
17 earlier changes are not listed.
Alternatives to DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
- Next cheaper Budget model: GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) at $1.24 blended, 7% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Alibaba) at $1.35 blended, 1% more.
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423.
- GLM 5 (Zhipu) — $0.60 in / $1.92 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1457: 14% more expensive, 1 ELO point lower
- Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba) — $0.32 in / $1.28 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1456: 25% cheaper, 2 ELO points lower
- GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — $0.20 in / $1.20 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1454: 32% cheaper, 4 ELO points lower
- GLM 5.3 Flash (Zhipu) — $0.15 in / $0.50 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1474: 70% cheaper, 16 ELO points higher
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI), 32% cheaper, 4 ELO points lower, out of 17 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 itself has the highest score of the 6 models priced within 20% of it.
Common questions about DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 pricing
- How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 cost?
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs $0.78 per million input tokens and $1.57 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.07/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs about $196 at list prices.
- Has the price of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 changed?
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 entered our daily price archive on 2026-08-17, 2026-08-15 being the first day we tracked any model. It listed at $1.32 input / $3.96 output per 1M tokens that day. The price we publish has changed 22 times since then, 4 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-30, was -17.9% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.78 input / $1.57 output. Net of all changes, the blended price is -58.0% against 2026-08-17.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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