After DeepSeek API Peak and Off-Peak Pricing and Tool Fees: 5 Steps to Recalculate Application Invocation Costs
Author’s note: Since the DeepSeek API introduced peak/off-peak pricing and tool-call charges, the old “unit price × Tokens” estimate no longer works. This article walks through 5 steps to recalculate your app’s real invocation cost across four dimensions: time window, Token type, caching, and tool calls. Plenty of developers’ cost spreadsheets still stop at “input…