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DeepSeek V4-Pro

DeepSeek V4-Pro — Spezifikationen

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Entwickler DeepSeek
Typ LLM (MoE)
Modality Text → Text
Parameter 1,6 Bio. insgesamt / ~49 Mrd. aktiv (MoE)
Kontextfenster 1 Mio.
Maximale Ausgabe 384 K
Lizenz MIT (offen)
Offene Gewichte Ja
Veröffentlicht 2026-04
Eingabepreis $0.435 /1M
Ausgabepreis $0.87 /1M
API-Anbieter DeepSeek, OpenRouter

Lokal ausführen

VRAM (4-Bit) ~800 GB
Mindest-GPU Multi-GPU-Server (z. B. 8× H100 mit 80 GB)

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What is DeepSeek V4-Pro?

DeepSeek V4-Pro is the company’s open flagship: a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts
activating around 49B parameters per token, with a 1M-token context window and MIT-licensed
weights. The API speaks both OpenAI and Anthropic request formats, which makes it unusually
easy to drop into an existing codebase — often a base-URL and key change rather than a
rewrite.

Pricing is $0.435 in / $0.87 out per million tokens, which blends to roughly $0.52 — around
a twentieth of frontier pricing for a model that holds its own on general reasoning. That
ratio, not the parameter count, is why V4-Pro matters. The dual-format API compatibility
compounds it: the switching cost that normally protects incumbent providers largely
disappears, so V4-Pro is a genuine option for teams that would otherwise never evaluate a
Chinese lab’s model. Self-hosting is a data-centre exercise — roughly 800 GB of VRAM at
4-bit, so eight H100 80GBs or more — meaning the open licence here buys auditability and
provider portability rather than a realistic on-premises deployment for most organisations.

DeepSeek V4-Pro pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Eingabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$0.435
Ausgabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$0.870
Verhältnis Output/Input
Gemischt (4:1 Input:Output)$0.522 pro 1 Mio. Tokens

What DeepSeek V4-Pro costs per month

Tatsächliche monatliche Ausgaben bei einem 4:1-Input-zu-Output-Mix – dem Verhältnis, das typische Chat- oder RAG-Arbeitslasten tatsächlich erzeugen.

WorkloadTokens/MonatKosten pro Monat
Nebenprojekt 1 Mio. Eingabe / 0,25 Mio. Ausgabe $0.65
Kleines Team 20 Mio. Eingabe / 5 Mio. Ausgabe $13
Produktion 200 Mio. Eingabe / 50 Mio. Ausgabe $131

Stellen Sie Ihre eigenen Berechnungen im KI-API-Kostenrechner.

Cheaper alternatives to DeepSeek V4-Pro

ModellGewichteter Preis pro Million US-DollarSie sparen
DeepSeek V4-Flash offenere $0.168 68 % günstiger

Selbst hosten oder die API nutzen?

DeepSeek V4-Pro is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~800 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (Multi-GPU server (e.g. 8× H100 80GB)). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the Selbsthosting vs. API-Rechner berechnet den Break-even-Punkt für Ihr Token-Volumen.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

How much does DeepSeek V4-Pro cost per 1M tokens?

DeepSeek V4-Pro costs $0.435 per 1M input tokens and $0.870 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.522 per 1M tokens.

How much does DeepSeek V4-Pro cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $13 on DeepSeek V4-Pro. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.65.

What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V4-Pro?

DeepSeek V4-Flash is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.168 per 1M blended — about 68% less than DeepSeek V4-Pro. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.

Can I run DeepSeek V4-Pro locally?

Yes. DeepSeek V4-Pro is open-weight and needs about ~800 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (Multi-GPU server (e.g. 8× H100 80GB)).

Why does DeepSeek V4-Pro charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. DeepSeek V4-Pro charges 2× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

See every DeepSeek model priced side by side: DeepSeek-API-Preismodell.

Die Preise entsprechen den offiziell veröffentlichten Listenpreisen für die primäre API des jeweiligen Modells und werden regelmäßig aktualisiert, sobald Anbieter diese ändern. Volumen-, Batch- und Cached-Input-Rabatte sind nicht enthalten. Vergleichen Sie alle Modelle nebeneinander im Datenbank für KI-Modelle oder das LLM-Leaderboard.

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