[SMM Hashrate Express] DeepSeek API Prices Were Raised by 3–5 Times Starting Today

Published: Aug 17, 2026 09:13

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SMM learned that DeepSeek officially implemented a new round of API price adjustments starting August 17. The price increase for core model calls reached 3–5 times, with some items rising by as much as 10 times. Among them, during off-peak hours for the Pro version, the cache-hit price for input per million tokens increased by 10 times, and the output price rose from 6 yuan to 27 yuan. After this price hike, DeepSeek’s listing prices have approached those of competing products such as Kimi, weakening its cost-performance advantage to some extent.

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