What DeepSeek changed
thecontinuitylayer.com/changes/deepseek2 changes to DeepSeek's AI products caught so far: prices, limits, models and data policies, each dated with the published source that confirms it. Latest 1 November 2026.
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- NotableAnnounced
Server-side tool calls on the DeepSeek API, Search and Fetch, are billed at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests from 00:00 Beijing time on 1 November 2026; they were free before. The deepseek-flash name now points to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, and requests to the older deepseek-v4-flash names are served by it at the Flash price.
Confirmed by provider. DeepSeek's API pricing page, read 3 November 2026. Checked on 3 November 2026.
- MinorUnclear
On September 10, DeepSeek's pricing page said that from September 14 requests to deepseek-v4-pro would be routed to V4.1-Flash and billed at the Flash price, as part of retiring V4 Pro. A day later the same page reversed the plan: V4 Pro API service continues after September 14 with billing unchanged, citing user demand. V4 Pro output stayed at $1.98 per million tokens off-peak and $3.96 peak.
Tracker signal. UsagePricing captured the DeepSeek pricing page footnotes on September 10 and 11, 2026; the live page no longer shows the notice.
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