DeepSeek Chat API pricing
Standard tier, blended at 3:1 input to output: $0.315 per million tokens.
DeepSeek charges $0.280 per million input tokens and $0.420 per million output tokens for DeepSeek Chat. It is sold in 2 forms, from $0.315 to $0.450 blended; the table below shows what each costs against standard. 5 of the models nearest it in price are cheaper on a blended basis.
Every tier of DeepSeek Chat
Blended at 3:1 input to output. The last column compares each against the standard tier.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Standard | deepseek-chat | DeepSeek | $0.280 | $0.420 | $0.028 | $0.315 | Standard | ↗ |
| Standard | deepseek-chat | OpenRouter | $0.257 | $1.03 | Not listed | $0.450 | +43% | ↗ |
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Which tier to use
What each costs against standard in our data, and the job it is for.
Direct or through a reseller
Through OpenRouter, deepseek-chat is 43% more than buying direct. A reseller is worth it for one bill across vendors and automatic fallback; buy direct for the vendor's own batch, caching and rate-limit terms.
Against the models nearest in price
Standard tiers, blended at a 3:1 input to output ratio.
| Source | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Chat This model | DeepSeek | $0.280 | $0.420 | 131,072 | $0.315 | ↗ |
| DeepSeek Reasoner | DeepSeek | $0.280 | $0.420 | 131,072 | $0.315 | ↗ |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.280 | $0.400 | 163,840 | $0.310 | ↗ |
| Llama 4 Maverick | OpenRouter | $0.188 | $0.652 | 524,288 | $0.304 | ↗ |
| GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128,000 | $0.263 | ↗ |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | OpenRouter | $0.400 | $0.400 | 131,072 | $0.400 | ↗ |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | $0.100 | $0.500 | 1,000,000 | $0.200 | ↗ |
| Llama 3 8B Chat Hf | Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | 8,192 | $0.200 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | $0.200 | $1.20 | 922,000 | $0.450 | ↗ |
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Questions
How much does DeepSeek Chat cost per million tokens?
$0.280 per million input tokens and $0.420 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.028. At a 3:1 input to output mix that blends to $0.315. Checked 28 Oct 2026.
What would DeepSeek Chat cost for a real workload?
A thousand requests a day at 2,000 input and 600 output tokens each comes to $24.36 a month on the standard tier.
What is the context window for DeepSeek Chat?
131,072 tokens of input, with up to 8,192 tokens of output.
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