DeepSeek
High-performance AI inference API offering DeepSeek-V3 and reasoning models at competitive prices
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This pricing data is community-maintained and last verified 2026-10-11.
Pricing Tiers
| Tier | Price | Includes | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
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Free
free
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Free
|
Free Tokens: 5,000,000
Free Token Expiry Days: 30
|
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Pay As You Go
usage based
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Free
|
Context Window: 128,000
|
input tokens (cache miss): $0.28/1,000,000 per tokens
input tokens (cache hit): $0.028/1,000,000 per tokens
output tokens: $0.42/1,000,000 per tokens
|
Portability
Switching Cost
drop-in
Open Standard
OpenAI-compatible
What You Lose
DeepSeek-specific cache hit pricing advantage, access to DeepSeek-native reasoning mode
Transparency Score
B
70/100
Pricing Transparency Score
Score breakdown
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Publishes pricing.md
0/30
✓
Free tier available
10/10
✓
All prices public
15/15
✓
Usage pricing documented
15/15
✓
Portability documented
10/10
✓
Open standard
10/10
✓
Recently verified
10/10