DeepSeek peak hours in your time zone
DeepSeek charges double during peak hours. Pick your time zone to see exactly when peak pricing hits for you - peak costs 2× off-peak on every model.
DeepSeek bills its API at two rates. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday (7 hours a weekday), except Chinese public holidays; every other hour, including all of Saturday and Sunday in UTC and every Chinese public holiday, is off-peak at half the peak price. The windows are fixed in UTC, so where they fall on your clock depends on your time zone and on daylight saving time.
This tool converts the windows to the zone your browser reports, or one you pick, and shows the current status, a countdown to the next switch and a week view. The price table covers two models (deepseek-flash and deepseek-v4-pro), off-peak and peak side by side.
Use it to schedule batch jobs, evaluations or bulk embeddings for off-peak hours. Interactive use costs the same per token; only the time of the request matters.
Reset countdowns on offer pages
The "resets in" chips on offer pages and lists convert each vendor's documented reset time to your zone with the same DST-safe conversion as these tables. Each schedule is taken from the vendor's own documentation (see how we verify); a vendor that states the period but not the moment gets a plain "resets daily" label, never a guessed time.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where do the peak hours and prices come from?
- From DeepSeek's published API pricing, copied into this tool's code by hand; the holiday dates come from China's State Council notice for the year. Prices change: check DeepSeek's pricing page before a large job.
- Which time zone does the tool use?
- The zone your browser reports, until you choose another; the choice is saved in this browser only. Conversion uses the browser time-zone database, so daylight saving changes are handled.
- What does the tool not cover?
- Chinese public holidays come from the State Council calendar, which is published one year at a time, so holidays after the newest published year are not shown yet. DeepSeek does not say how weekend make-up workdays are billed; the tool treats them as weekends. It does not track rate limits or account-specific discounts and reads no account data.