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 $2.15 per million tokens.
Chinese AI lab known for cost-efficient frontier models.
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Arena ELO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V2.5 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 128K | 1200 | Details → |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.259 | $0.420 | 128K | 1280 | Details → |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | $0.290 | $0.290 | 64K | 1240 | Details → |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 128K | 1310 | Details → |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.700 | $0.800 | 128K | 1250 | Details → |
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