# DeepSeek V4 Pro API, paid in crypto

> DeepSeek V4 Pro by API at $1.254 / $3.762 per 1M tokens, 5% below the median host price. OpenAI-compatible, paid in USDT or BTC, no KYC.

- URL: https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/deepseek-v4-pro/
- Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Publisher: LLMwithCrypto (https://llmwithcrypto.com)

DeepSeek’s flagship open-weight model behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed per token from a prepaid crypto balance. Same model as the 0813 release the main hosts list, at 5% below their median price. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents.

**Quick answer — Can I use the DeepSeek V4 Pro API and pay in crypto?**

Yes. As of 23 October 2026, **LLMwithCrypto** serves DeepSeek V4 Pro under the API id `deepseek-v4-pro`, with a 1M-token context, at $1.254 per million input tokens and $3.762 per million output tokens. That is 5% below the median of 7 hosts ($1.32 / $3.96). You pay from a balance topped up in USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or LTC, with no KYC.

## How does our price compare with other hosts?

List prices per million tokens on each host's own pricing page, read on 23 October 2026; promotions are left out. Ours is the median of these prices minus 5%; every host is in the [price index](https://llmwithcrypto.com/data/open-model-api-price-index-2026/).

| Host | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **LLMwithCrypto** | $1.254 | $3.762 |
| DeepSeek API (peak hours) | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| Together AI | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| DeepInfra | $1.30 | $2.60 |
| Novita AI | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| Nebius Token Factory | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| Baseten | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| Parasail (version not stated) | $1.74 | $3.48 |

*Prices checked on October 23, 2026.*

## How do I call DeepSeek V4 Pro?

With the OpenAI SDK, as for any OpenAI-compatible API: set the base URL to `https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1`, read your key from `LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY`, and pass `deepseek-v4-pro` as the model. Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, as the OpenAI SDK does.

*deepseek_v4_pro.py*

```python
import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-v4-pro",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Review this SQL query for missing indexes: SELECT * FROM orders WHERE customer_id = 42 ORDER BY created_at DESC;"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
print(resp.usage)  # prompt_tokens and completion_tokens: what the call costs

```

## What is DeepSeek V4 Pro good for?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the larger of the two V4 models DeepSeek sells on its own API, next to V4.1 Flash. The release the hosts below list is 0813, published by DeepSeek under the MIT licence with a context window of about one million tokens.

We position it for general chat, reasoning and code: tasks where answer quality matters more than speed or price. For high-volume work where cost comes first, [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash/) costs a fraction of it on the same key.

## What licence does DeepSeek V4 Pro come with?

MIT. DeepSeek publishes the V4 Pro weights under the MIT licence on Hugging Face, which allows serving them as a paid API as long as the copyright notice is kept. That is why we can run the model ourselves instead of reselling DeepSeek’s own API.

Each model keeps its own licence and use policy (for example Meta’s Llama Acceptable Use Policy and the “Built with Llama” notice); using a model through us means accepting them.

## DeepSeek V4 Pro questions

### Is there an off-peak discount?

Not here: our price is the same at every hour. DeepSeek’s own API halves its price off-peak; on 23 October 2026 it listed $0.66 input and $1.98 output per million tokens at those times, against $1.32 and $3.96 at peak hours.

### Which DeepSeek V4 Pro release do you serve?

The 0813 release, the one most hosts list on their pricing pages. The models endpoint returns the exact id your key can call.

### Are my prompts stored?

We do not store your prompts or the model’s answers: once a response is sent, its text is gone. Each call leaves one log line with the time, the account, the model and the token counts, deleted after 30 days.

## Sources

1. [DeepSeek API pricing](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing) — DeepSeek API (read 2026-10-23)
2. [Together AI pricing](https://www.together.ai/pricing) — Together AI (read 2026-10-23)
3. [DeepInfra pricing](https://deepinfra.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813) — DeepInfra (read 2026-10-23)
4. [Novita AI pricing](https://novita.ai/pricing) — Novita AI (read 2026-10-23)
5. [Nebius Token Factory pricing](https://tokenfactory.nebius.com/endpoints) — Nebius Token Factory (read 2026-10-23)
6. [Baseten pricing](https://www.baseten.co/pricing/) — Baseten (read 2026-10-23)
7. [Parasail pricing](https://www.parasail.io/pricing) — Parasail (read 2026-10-23)

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LLMwithCrypto: LLMwithCrypto is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API for open-weight models — DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek R1, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct, gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, GLM-4.7, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Gemma 4 31B, Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 — paid per token from a prepaid crypto balance, at 5% below the median price of the public hosts. No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents. Prompts and outputs are not stored.