DeepSeek Price in India (2026): V4 Flash and V4 Pro Cost in ₹ per Month, and How to Pay with UPI

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs ₹9.31 per 1M input tokens and ₹18.61 per 1M output tokens in India on Velona. DeepSeek V4 Pro costs ₹97.69 and ₹195.38. There is no DeepSeek subscription to buy. The chat app is free, and the API is pay per use. Most students spend under ₹50 a month. Prices are as of 16 October 2026.

This guide answers the questions people actually search for: what DeepSeek costs in rupees, what a month really costs, whether there is a subscription, whether you can use it in India, and how to pay with UPI.

DeepSeek price in India (₹ per 1M tokens)

DeepSeek, like every AI API, charges per million tokens. Input is what you send, output is what the model writes. A token is about three quarters of an English word.

What ₹100 buys on DeepSeek

The easiest way to feel the price is to count what a small top up gets you. Here is how many typical chat replies ₹100 covers on each model.

How much DeepSeek costs per month

Pick the profile closest to you. Each bar is a full month of use, priced in rupees.

The pattern is clear. For a student, DeepSeek V4 Flash costs about ₹5.28 a week. Only always on agent workloads run into thousands of rupees a month, and even then V4 Flash costs about 1/24 of what Claude Sonnet 5.5 would.

Is there a DeepSeek subscription?

No. DeepSeek does not sell a monthly plan. There are two separate ways to use it, and only one of them costs money.

So when you see "DeepSeek subscription price per month in India", the honest answer is: there is no subscription, and the API bill depends only on how much you use. For most people that is far less than any AI plan. Our subscription vs pay as you go guide runs the full rupee math.

Can I use DeepSeek in India?

Yes. There is no national consumer ban in India, and the DeepSeek app and API work for private users. The one restriction to know about: in early 2025, India's Finance Ministry advised its officials not to use AI tools such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek on government devices. That applies to office devices, not to students or developers.

The real hurdle is payment. Paying DeepSeek directly means a US dollar balance and an international card, which many Indian cards decline. The two routes look like this:

If you pay DeepSeek directly, its published rates in September 2026 were $0.30 input and $1.20 output per 1M tokens for V4.1 Flash, and $1.32 and $3.96 for V4 Pro, at peak. Off peak is half price. Check DeepSeek's pricing page before you commit, because these rates have changed several times this year.

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs V4 Pro: which one should you use?

V4 Pro costs about 10 times as much as V4 Flash per token. Start on Flash and move a task to Pro only when Flash gets it wrong.

How to pay for DeepSeek with UPI and make your first call

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["VELONA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://velona.in/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain binary search in simple words."}],
    max_tokens=500,
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
print(response.usage)  # tokens billed for this request

Want the full setup with a .env file, streaming and error handling? Follow the DeepSeek API in India Python setup guide.

Frequently asked questions

Comparing more models? See every model ranked by rupee price on the cheapest AI models page, or read what Claude Sonnet 5 costs in rupees.

How we calculated this

Rupee prices are Velona's list prices on 16 October 2026, and V4 Flash prices match what Velona billed for real requests that week. Request sizes are typical examples, not averages. Monthly figures multiply the per request cost by the number of requests shown, with no caching discount. DeepSeek's direct rates are as published by DeepSeek in September 2026. Prices change often, so check the model pages for live rates.