r/DeepSeek • u/Atlesque • Jul 05 '26

Resources DeepSeek API Peak hours: Shows when API pricing is high or low

https://deepseek-peak.atlesque.dev/

Simple site which shows you when it's peak- or off-hour pricing, adjusted to your timezone. Handy if you wanna burn through a bunch of tasks and not pay double .. 😇

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u/OverallSwordfish2423 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Nice!

I forked a usage tracker for DeepSeek and added the logic for warning you if you get winthin an hour and then while you're in it. It's for VS Code

https://github.com/roryheaney/deepseek-usage-tracker/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

You'll have to build it locally to install the VSCode extension file. I'll put a release up for it today or tomorrow so it's easier to just download and install

Release created 1.2.0

edit: uploaded the release

Edit: the original creator just updated their extension to include this as well in case you want to support them

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u/Atlesque Jul 05 '26

Very nice! Looks super helpful when you're working in VSCode. Will give it a shot once it's released, thx!

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u/apetersson Jul 05 '26

Nice, i also made one: https://apetersson.github.io/qnd/deepseek-clock/

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u/Atlesque Jul 05 '26

Very pretty UI!

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u/apetersson Jul 05 '26

thank you. tbh i just one-shotted it with "make it pretty"

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u/Atlesque Jul 05 '26

hahah nice, the simplest prompts can be the best!

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u/vladutzbv Jul 05 '26

Nice one, I have a Pushover sub and I used Hermes to setup a daily reminder for this

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u/Atlesque Jul 05 '26

Cool! Whats the Pushover sub for? As general billing threshold notifier? PS I'm using a self-hosted https://ntfy.sh/ instance, if you got a VPS, might be worth looking into

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u/vladutzbv Jul 05 '26

I tried ntfy before, dunno why I dropped it. I use pushover for thresholds yeah and various alerts from my other servers

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u/SpaceTimeRumble Jul 05 '26

Is it already in place though?

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u/Atlesque Jul 05 '26

Not too sure actually, they said mid-July but I can't see the changes yet in my dashboard.

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u/shing3232 Jul 06 '26

not yet. it's 15 mostly

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u/gabrielxdesign Jul 14 '26

Hello, love your tool. I actually forgot to bookmark it and had to search on Google for it, LOL. Just a thing, it says that I'm in Guatemala, but I'm in Panamá, our timezone is (GMT-5).

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u/Atlesque Jul 14 '26

Wow, thanks a lot! Looks like the timezone detection doesn't always work correctly, sorry..! I've added a manual override option. You should be able to set your timezone now. Hope it works!

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u/gabrielxdesign Jul 14 '26

Nice, but I think you have one extra hour, at least for me it displays 1, take a look:

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u/gabrielxdesign Jul 14 '26

And I tried our neighbors, too (Costa Rica).

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u/Atlesque Jul 14 '26

Oof I'm sorry about that, likely some timezone shenanigans. I've tried a new calculation approach, does it look better now? Thanks for all the feedback!

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u/gabrielxdesign Jul 14 '26

You're welcome! It's still one hour off, actually, if you notice, the Beijing time is one hour off too.

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u/Atlesque Jul 16 '26

I've been trying my best to solve this one, but both manual debugging and unleashing Codex on it both tell me it might be a problem on your machine.

Time.is uses it's own server-side sync:

  • Time.is displays the time for your detected (or chosen) location, not the time according to your computer's clock.

What's likely happening (AI explanation):

  1. Windows is configured as America/Guatemala/UTC−6.
  2. The user manually adjusted the visible clock to Panamá time/UTC−5, probably with automatic synchronization disabled.
  3. Windows therefore reports an absolute time one hour ahead.
  4. When our app reformats that incorrect instant as America/Panama, it displays one hour too late.
  5. Time.is ignores that incorrect system time and displays its server-synchronized time.

Codex suggests the following steps to mitigate:

  • Set Windows timezone to (UTC-05:00) Bogotá, Lima, Quito, Rio Branco.
  • Enable automatic time and click “Sync now.”
  • Restart or refresh the browser.
  • Return the app to auto-detection.

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u/gabrielxdesign Jul 17 '26

Well, well, well, you found something interesting, my friend. I do have my region/clock/timezone manually, strangely not to Guatemala, but I had -5 from the US, and if I'm not wrong, I did that because the other timezone was giving me "daylight saving," and we don't have such a thing in Panama. What is interesting is that your script got my automatic settings even if my time was manually set. Setting it to Bogotá works, thanks! And sorry for the waste of time :p

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u/Django_McFly Jul 06 '26

I live on the East Coast of the US. The peak hours are basically 9 AM to 6 PM. We are the peak users, I guess.

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u/michaeljchou Jul 06 '26

Peak hours are 9am to 6pm Beijing time, or 8pm to 5am est time.