Provider pricing
DeepSeek AI API pricing
DeepSeek has 35 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, Deepseek Chat has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.000028, with $0.014 input and $0.028 output per million tokens.
Best for
Cost-conscious teams that want flagship-quality output at budget prices.
Strengths
- V4 Pro: frontier-class reasoning at a fraction of GPT-5.5/Claude Opus pricing
- V4 Flash: ~3.5× faster than V4 Pro, ideal for high-throughput chat/RAG
- 90% cache hit discount — industry leading
- Open-weight models available for self-hosting
Tracked DeepSeek models
| Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Tier | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.150 | $0.600 | 1,048,576 | Budget | Fast low-cost MoE with 1M context (1017 build) |
| DeepSeek V4.1 | $0.420 | $1.68 | 512,000 | Flagship | Refreshed V4 flagship — sharper agentic coding and 512K context at open-weight prices |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.550 | $2.20 | 256,000 | Flagship | 1.6T MoE flagship (49B active), frontier reasoning at open-weight prices |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.140 | $0.550 | 128,000 | Budget | 284B MoE (13B active), high-throughput chat/RAG/extraction |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.280 | $0.420 | 128,000 | Budget | Best value overall, 90% cache discount |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.550 | $2.19 | 128,000 | Reasoning | Reasoning at budget prices |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.270 | $1.10 | 128,000 | Flagship | 671B MoE flagship — strong coding and reasoning at open-weight prices |
| DeepSeek V2.5 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 128,000 | Mid-tier | Previous-gen DeepSeek for general chat and coding |
| DeepSeek Coder V2 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 128,000 | Mid-tier | Code-specialized MoE for IDE completion and repo-scale tasks |
| DeepSeek R2 | $0.700 | $2.80 | 256,000 | Reasoning | Successor to R1 — frontier open-weight reasoning at budget prices |
| DeepSeek Coder V3 | $0.200 | $0.800 | 256,000 | Flagship | Code-specialized MoE for repo-scale completion and refactoring |
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the DeepSeek API cost?
DeepSeek has 35 priced models in the public snapshot. For 1,000 input and 500 output tokens, Deepseek Chat has the lowest recorded request cost at $0.000028, with $0.014 input and $0.028 output per million tokens.
Which DeepSeek model is cheapest?
Deepseek Chat is the lowest-cost recorded model for the 1,000-input/500-output example. Prices are $0.014 input and $0.028 output per million tokens; different workloads may change the ranking.
Does DeepSeek have cached or batch prices?
Cached input: $0.0014 per million tokens under the existing provider cache rules. Batch: not recorded in this dataset. Eligibility and cache-write charges depend on the provider; these discounts are not automatically stacked.
How often are provider prices verified?
The live pricing table synchronizes stored model records daily; public file snapshots update when the site is rebuilt. Synchronization is not independent provider verification. Snapshot updated 2026-10-31; only explicit per-model dates are verification records.