dsh-peak-price-panel

DeepSeek bills by peak and off-peak windows — full price during weekday business hours, half price the rest of the day and all weekend — yet the dashboard never quietly tells you which tier you are in right now or what each token actually costs. dsh-peak-price-panel pulls that information into the sidebar: a single card shows the current period, the live output price for every model in your plan, your account balance, and a countdown to the next pricing switch. A banner pops up thirty minutes before the transition — nudging you to finish a batch job before prices jump, or to ramp back up when they halve — so a mid-run price change never catches you off guard.

Balance monitoring uses three color-coded thresholds: cross the warning line and the figure turns amber; drop below critical and it goes red; hit the extreme floor and the top-up button starts pulsing while the balance number turns bold red. Polling interval, lead-time for the transition banner, which models to display, and the currency symbol are all adjustable in the Settings panel without touching code. From v0.2.0 onward the price table and peak windows are pure data — when DeepSeek adjusts its pricing you update the prices or peakWindows JSON and you are done, no reinstall, no code change, no new release needed.

It suits developers and small teams that call the DeepSeek API dozens of times a day, ops folks who track API spend against a monthly budget, or anyone who wants a sidebar glance to answer three questions: what tier am I in, what does this token cost, and is my balance about to blink out. Low-frequency users will barely notice it; for high-throughput workloads it becomes the quiet, always-on cost compass you did not know you needed.