DeepSeek V4 Graduates from Preview to General Availability with Peak-Hour API Pricing

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DeepSeek officially released V4 as general availability on July 15, graduating from the April 24 preview. The lineup includes V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active parameters) and V4-Flash (284B / 13B active), both with 1M-token context and open weights under MIT license. The release introduces peak-hour API pricing for the first time: rates double during 9–12 and 14–18 Beijing time. The legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner endpoints are deprecated and will be inaccessible after July 24.

Why it matters

DeepSeek V4-Pro GA formalizes commercial terms and forces a migration deadline for millions of developers still on legacy endpoint aliases. The peak-hour surcharge is a new precedent for open-source API pricing.

Importance: 3/5

GA of one of the highest-performing open-weight MoE models; July 24 migration deadline for millions of API users; confirmed by HuggingFace official model cards, TechNode

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Sources

official deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro — HuggingFace

media DeepSeek to launch V4 in mid-July with new peak-time API pricing — TechNode