dsh-meter

DeepSeek now bills by time of day. This is the meter for it.

On 2026-08-16 16:00 UTC DeepSeek's API moved to time-of-use pricing: two peak windows a day, off-peak at half the peak rate. Cost stopped being a number you read afterwards and became a rate you are standing in. A spend counter tells you what you can no longer change; a meter tells you what to do next.

dsh-meter puts one line under the composer — what this session has cost, which tariff is running, and how long until it flips — and a card behind it with the tariff clock, where the money went, and what the same tokens would have cost under the other tariff.

60-second start

dsh plugin forwards to pnpm, so pnpm must be on PATH.

dsh plugin --profile web add github:dshworks/dsh-meter
dsh --profile web

Billing in CNY (the mainland platform publishes its own table, not a converted one) — add to your profile's cordis.patch.yml:

- id: dsh-meter
  config:
    currency: cny

What you see

1 turns · 1 steps | LLM 1.7s | TTFT avg 1.7s · 71 tok/s | Cache hit 0% | Input 22.2K tok · Output 2 tok
                       $0.0096  |  peak  |  off-peak in 48m

The stock stats line, untouched, and ours under it — this plugin adds a line, it does not replace the harness's. Hover or focus it for the card. Inside a peak window the tariff is called out and the countdown runs to the next off-peak hour:

The card shows	Why it is there
The session total, request count, models	The number, once, at full size
A 24-hour tariff strip in local time, with a live now-marker