DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

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DeepSeek launched V4-Pro with agent upgrades and peak/off-peak API pricing.

DeepSeek released V4-Pro today with major agent upgrades and flexible reasoning effort (low, high, max) for V4-Pro and V4-Flash. It supports native OpenAI Responses API and one-click Codex setup. API pricing updates introduce peak and off-peak rates, with off-peak 50% lower than peak, effective August 16, 2026 at 16:00 UTC.

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