Abstract: We develop a deposit insurance pricing model that explicitly considers regulatory capital and bankruptcy costs. Based on the pricing deposit insurance model, we calculate the deposit insurance premiums of China's 16 listed banks with time span of 2011 to 2017 in this paper. The results demonstrate that the deposit insurance premiums of state-owned banks is lower than joint-stock commercial banks and city commercial banks, however, the deposit insurance premiums of joint-stock commercial banks is higher than city commercial banks. Numerical simulation shows that, ceteris paribus, the value of deposit insurance decreases with regulatory capital ratios and the insured deposits ratios, but it increases with interest rate and bankruptcy costs.