DeepSeek Announced Aug 13, 2026
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek moved V4-Pro from preview to general availability across app, web, and API, citing enhanced agent capabilities, reasoning-effort levels, and a peak/off-peak pricing change from Aug 16.
Routable on MiniRouter
Use deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 via the API →- Context
- 1M
- 384K maximum output per the publisher's spec table
- Off-peak discount
- 50% off peak
- Peak is 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC from Aug 16; other hours bill half
- Reasoning effort
- low / high / max
- Publisher-described effort levels for V4-Pro and V4-Flash
- Weights
- Not mentioned
- The GA release notes do not mention an open-weights release
Publisher pricing
Pricing below comes from the release announcement and does not represent a MiniRouter route or price.
| Phase | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended / 1M | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory | $0.44 | $0.87 | $0.54 | Aug 13, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026 | DeepSeek ↗ |
| Standard · peak | $1.32 | $3.96 | $1.98 | Aug 16, 2026 – open-ended | DeepSeek ↗ |
Publisher-reported benchmarks
Results are grouped by unit. Percentage, Elo, and task-count results never share a scale.
| Benchmark | Reported result | Reported by | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Bench 2.1 | 87.9 | DeepSeek | Aug 13, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| HLE (with tools) | 60.0 | DeepSeek | Aug 13, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| DeepSWE | 62.7 | DeepSeek | Aug 13, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| Cybergym | 83.3 | DeepSeek | Aug 13, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 74.1 | DeepSeek | Aug 13, 2026 | Announcement ↗ |
- — Pricing rises sharply on Aug 16, 2026: peak output moves from $0.87 to $3.96 per 1M tokens, with off-peak hours at half the peak rate.
- — DeepSeek's own API uses the plain id deepseek-v4-pro; the 0813 suffix is the GA snapshot date.
- — DeepSeek reports the benchmark figures; MiniRouter has not reproduced them.
- — Now routable through MiniRouter as deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813; the model page's live price is authoritative.
What is not independently confirmed
- Every figure on this page is self-reported by the cited publisher. MiniRouter did not run these benchmarks.
- Benchmark harnesses are not standardised. Results sharing a name across vendors have not been confirmed to use identical runs.
- Publisher pricing can change, and introductory phases have stated end dates.
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro is routable through MiniRouter today; live pricing on its model page is authoritative over the publisher figures here.
Related coverage
Other release dossiers and the current MiniRouter catalog.
Sources
- Read at DeepSeek ↗
DeepSeek GA release notes
Published Aug 13, 2026
Page revised 2026-08-14. Dates change only when the content changes.