dsh-peak-pricing

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A DeepSeek Harness Web plugin that puts one line under the composer: which DeepSeek pricing period is in force right now, how long it lasts, and what this session has cost so far.

4 轮 · 195 步 │ LLM 17m13s │ 首 token 平均 1.3s │ 缓存命中 100%  ·  TPS 117 tok/s
              ● 空闲时段 · 1:35:06 后进入高峰 · 本会话 ¥1.69

• Green dot — off-peak. A cheap moment to start a long run.
• Orange dot — peak. Everything costs exactly twice as much.
• The countdown is how long the current rate lasts, to the second.
• The amount is what this session has spent, each increment priced at the rate in force when it arrived.

Hover the row (or focus it with the keyboard) for the full breakdown: model, current rates, the session's four token buckets, and the peak windows — plus a sparkline of the cache-hit rate, one point per input-bearing increment on a fixed 0–100% scale, capped at the most recent 120 points so long sessions keep their shape. The trend lives in localStorage beside the running total and survives a reload; as with the cost, a session's first reading after opening is sampled whole rather than as a delta.

Install

dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-peak-pricing

Restart dsh web, and the row is there. To confirm the plugin layer mounted:

dsh --profile web --dump-config | grep peak-pricing

Removal is the mirror image:

dsh plugin --profile web remove dsh-peak-pricing

The price table

Per the official price page, DeepSeek prices by time of day: peak is 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing time, Monday through Friday, and off-peak — everything else, including all day Saturday and Sunday — is exactly half.

Model	Period	Input (cache hit)	Input (cache miss)	Output
deepseek-v4-flash	off-peak	¥0.05	¥1.50	¥4.50
	peak	¥0.10	¥3.00	¥9.00
deepseek-v4-pro	off-peak	¥0.15	¥4.50	¥13.50
	peak	¥0.30	¥9.00	¥27.00
deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp	off-peak	¥0.05	¥1.50	¥4.50
	peak	¥0.10	¥3.00	¥9.00

Prices are CNY per million tokens. The table lives in src/pricing.ts as a plain constant — when DeepSeek announces new numbers, that is the only thing to edit.

Images sent to deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp are converted to tokens by size and billed together with text input, so they flow through the same usage buckets and need no special handling here.

The announcement scopes peak to weekdays and names no holiday exception, so no holiday calendar is built in — the same weekday windows apply every week. Times are computed from UTC with a fixed +8 offset (the PRC observes no daylight saving), so the row is correct in any browser timezone.

Other providers

Models billed outside DeepSeek's scheme live in a second table (FLAT_PRICE_TABLE in src/pricing.ts): one rate trio around the clock, in the provider's own currency, optionally stepped in time.

Model	Currency	Input (hit & miss)	Output	In force
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash	USD	$0.075	$0.25	now → 2026-09-09 16:00 UTC
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash	USD	$0.15	$0.50	after 2026-09-09 16:00 UTC

The first row is Z.AI's limited-time 50% discount (through September 9, 2026, 16:00 UTC); afterwards the model reverts to its list price — the resolver just picks whichever time step is in force, so no migration is needed when the promo ends. No cache split is published for this model, so both input buckets bill at the single input price.

Because currencies differ, the accumulator keeps one subtotal per currency and never sums across them: a session that used both reads ¥1.69 + $0.02, in the row itself and in the hover breakdown.

How the cost is computed

The harness publishes one tokenUsage projection per session: four cumulative buckets (cacheReadTokens, uncachedInputTokens, cacheWriteTokens, outputTokens) with no timestamps. A cumulative total alone cannot say which tokens were billed at which rate, so this plugin prices increments:

1. Each new reading is diffed against the previous one.
2. The difference is priced at the rate in force at that moment — which is when those tokens were actually billed.
3. The running total is kept in localStorage, keyed by session id, so a page reload continues the accounting instead of repricing the whole session at whatever rate happens to be current.

A session that runs across 17:55 → 18:05 is therefore billed as ten minutes of peak plus five of off-peak, not fifteen minutes of either.

Two mappings worth stating explicitly:

• cacheReadTokens bills as cache-hit input; uncachedInputTokens + cacheWriteTokens bills as cache-miss input. The announcement prices input as hit-or-miss only, and a cache write is the miss that populated the cache.
• The first reading of a session has no arrival times to price by, so it is priced whole at the current rate. Everything after it is exact. Opening an old session mid-peak therefore over-estimates its history; the figure converges as the session continues.

If the active model is not in the table (another provider, or a DeepSeek model the announcement does not price), the period and countdown keep working and the amount is suppressed rather than guessed.

This is an estimate for pacing your own work — your DeepSeek invoice is authoritative.

How it is built

One package, both halves, the official plugin shape:

• src/pricing.ts — the pure core: table, window rule, bucket pricing. No React, no DOM. The host entry re-exports it, so a host-side consumer can price usage from the same table the row shows.
• src/client/ — the browser half, mounted on the conversation.composer.dock slot (the seat the shipped stats line uses) at order: 120. It reads the active model through ctx.modelDirectories softly: no hard dependency, and the row degrades to period-only if that service is absent.
• cordis.patch.yml — the one row that inserts the plugin into a profile.

The browser bundle is built by tsdown into the client module loader's factory form (window.__ModuleLoader__.load({id, factory})), with react, react/jsx-runtime and every @deepseek-ai/* package left external — the runtime serves those, and a second React copy would break hooks.

npm install
npm test        # vitest: window boundaries, bucket pricing, accumulation
npm run build   # tsc -b (declarations) + tsdown (host ESM + client bundle)

Local install from a tarball, the way this plugin was verified:

npm pack
dsh plugin --profile web add "file:$PWD/dsh-peak-pricing-<version>.tgz"

UI language

The row's copy ships in zh (Simplified Chinese, matching DSH's own UI and DeepSeek's announcement wording) and en, selected by the harness's language setting. Both dictionaries are in src/client/locales.ts — edit and rebuild to change the wording (e.g. to 尖峰/離峰 in Traditional Chinese).

Plays well with dsh-live-stats

@linxin666/dsh-live-stats flattens the composer dock into one non-wrapping flex line to merge its TPS readout onto the official stats line. This plugin injects a small stylesheet that lets that wrapper wrap and claims a full-width basis for its own row, so the price lands on its own line underneath instead of squeezing the stats. Without that plugin, the rule is inert.

License

MIT