DeepSeek

Chinese AI lab offering highly capable models at extremely competitive prices. DeepSeek V3.2 rivals GPT-4o-level performance at a fraction of the cost.

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Plans & Pricing

Free (API)

$0 (limited)

✓Rate-limited API access
✓deepseek-chat (V3.2)
✓deepseek-reasoner (V3.2)

API Pay-Per-Use

From $0.028/1M tokens

✓deepseek-chat: $0.028/1M in (cache hit), $0.28/1M in (miss), $0.42/1M out
✓deepseek-reasoner: $0.055/1M in (cache hit), $0.55/1M in (miss), $2.19/1M out
✓Prompt caching: 90% discount on cache hits
✓Batch API: 50% off

Free Tier

Free API tier available (rate-limited). New users receive free API credits. Paid: very competitive — from $0.028/1M tokens with prompt caching.

Models (2)

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Model	Context	In /1M	Out /1M	Capabilities
DeepSeek V3.2 (Chat) Non-thinking mode. Cache hit: 90% discount. ChatFunctions	128K	$0.28	$0.42	ChatFunctionsStreaming+2
DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoner) Thinking mode. Max output 64K tokens. Cache hit: 90% discount. ReasoningChat	128K	$0.55	$2.19	ReasoningChatFunctions+2