DeepSeek Reasoner 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 Reasoner. 5 of the models nearest it in price are cheaper on a blended basis.
Against the models nearest in price
Standard tiers, blended at a 3:1 input to output ratio.
| Source | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Reasoner This model | DeepSeek | $0.280 | $0.420 | 131,072 | $0.315 | ↗ |
| DeepSeek Chat | 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 Reasoner 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 Reasoner 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 Reasoner?
131,072 tokens of input, with up to 65,536 tokens of output.
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