Our 3 a.m. batch job was running at Beijing's afternoon peak rate
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DeepSeek's API charges two different prices for the same tokens. Which one you pay depends on what time it is in Beijing when the request lands. That is the whole bug. It took me an embarrassingly long time to find, because nothing in our code was wrong. The rule Beijing time, Monday through Friday…
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- 2026-09-21 02:20 · DEV Community — AI
Our 3 a.m. batch job was running at Beijing's afternoon peak rate