API PRICING

DeepSeek API Pricing 2026

DeepSeek offers 5 models via API. Input pricing ranges from $0.140 to $0.700 per million tokens. Output pricing ranges from $0.280 to $2.50 per million tokens.

Chinese AI lab known for cost-efficient frontier models.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Arena ELO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B	$0.140	$0.280	64K	1240	Details →
DeepSeek V2.5	$0.140	$0.280	128K	1200	Details →
DeepSeek V3	$0.200	$0.770	128K	1280	Details →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	$0.230	$0.690	128K	1250	Details →
DeepSeek R1	$0.700	$2.50	128K	1310	Details →

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