DeepSeek Models: How to Shift Batch Work into the Off-Peak Billing Window Without Rewriting Your App

If the answer can wait until tomorrow morning, you should not be paying today’s rates for it. DeepSeek Models are billed at a published discount during a fixed overnight window — 00:30 to 08:30 Beijing time — and moving deferrable work into that window is an operations change, not an architecture change: same endpoints, same payloads, […]








