Peak/off-peak pricing policy coming to DeepSeek API service
API pricing will increase to 2x during peak hours (9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing Time, UTC+8) daily. This affects all billing items. Effective date pending official announcement.
Issue #3 · Aug 2, 2026 · week of Jul 26 – Aug 2
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DeepSeek will charge 2x the regular price during peak hours (9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing time) once the policy takes effect; no effective date yet. Batch jobs and anything latency-tolerant are worth shifting off-peak before the bill shows up.
API pricing will increase to 2x during peak hours (9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 Beijing Time, UTC+8) daily. This affects all billing items. Effective date pending official announcement.
As of July 31, GitHub Copilot dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across Chat, inline edits, and agent mode. Copilot Enterprise admins need to enable Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) and Gemini 3.6 Flash through policy settings; anyone still pinned to the old names loses access outright.
Users must migrate from Gemini 2.5 Pro to Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) and from Gemini 3 Flash to Gemini 3.6 Flash. Copilot Enterprise administrators need to enable alternative models through policy settings. Deprecated models no longer available in Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask/agent modes, and code completions.
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The deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner model names were retired on July 24; both now map to deepseek-v4-flash's non-thinking and thinking modes. Code still calling the old names is running against a renamed model, not the one it was tested against.
API users using these legacy model names must migrate to deepseek-v4-flash before the deprecation date to avoid service disruption.
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The Anthropic provider in Vercel's AI SDK now reports thinking tokens under reasoning token usage instead of wherever they landed before. Anything reading token usage to track cost, quota, or reasoning-mode spend should recheck its math after upgrading.
Developers using @ai-sdk/anthropic will see thinking tokens correctly categorized in token usage metrics, improving cost tracking and API usage visibility.
OpenAI is replacing Priority Processing with Fast mode; existing Priority Processing traffic migrates automatically. Behavior should carry over, but anything hardcoded to the old name in docs, dashboards, or billing exports needs updating.
API users using priority processing will see their requests automatically migrated to the new Fast mode offering; branding change from 'Priority processing' to 'Fast mode'
mem0's Python delete_all() used to list the vector store once and stop, so accounts with more memories than a single page (most stores default to around 100) had the rest silently left behind. It now paginates in batches of 1000. Anyone who called delete_all() for compliance or privacy reasons before this fix should confirm the data actually left the store.
Accounts with more memories than a single page will now have all memories deleted correctly instead of silently leaving the remainder behind.
The Copilot app used to inherit its access rules from the Copilot CLI policy; it now has its own, with the same three options (enabled everywhere, disabled everywhere, or let organizations decide). Admins who disabled the CLI to keep the app off will find the app now needs its own policy set.
Enterprise and organization administrators can now independently control access to the Copilot app through dedicated policies, with three options: Enabled everywhere, Disabled everywhere, or Let organizations decide. Gives more granular control over which Copilot clients teams can use.
Neon now lets you grant access at the project level instead of only across the whole organization. If contractors or partial teams have had org-wide access purely because project scoping did not exist, that workaround is no longer necessary.
Users can now grant access at the project level instead of organization-wide, providing more granular access control and improved security for organizations managing multiple projects.
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Vercel's AI Gateway can now pin requests to the US or EU with a single field, working across every provider behind the gateway, and returns the serving region on each response. Relevant if data residency rules have been blocking use of the gateway at all.
AI Gateway users can now control request routing to specific regions (US or EU) with a single field, providing better data residency control and performance optimization across all providers.
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Kimi K3 is now priced on Together AI at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 output, with a $0.30 cached-input rate. A concrete number to put next to whatever you are currently paying for a comparable model.
Developers can now use Kimi K3 model on Together AI platform with $3.00 input cost and $15.00 output cost, plus a $0.30 cached option for inputs.
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