DeepSeek API pricing
What the DeepSeek models cost per million tokens, straight from DeepSeek's own docs. Put your own usage in the boxes and the table works out the monthly bill.
3 priced models · updated 2026-09-05 12:15 UTC
What would this cost me?
One request, and how often you send it. We count words and turn them into tokens at the usual English rate.
Cheapest for that workload: DeepSeek-V4-Flash at $0.77 a month.
| Model | Lab | Input | Output | Context | Your month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek | DeepSeek | $0.44 | $1.32 | 1M | $0.77 |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-ExpDeepSeek | DeepSeek | $0.44 | $1.32 | 1M | $0.77 |
| DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek | DeepSeek | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1M | $2.32 |
The short version
DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the cheapest DeepSeek model you can pay for, at about $0.77 a month for steady daily use. DeepSeek-V4-Pro does the same work for $2.32.
DeepSeek publishes its API prices in dollars per million tokens, and they sit well under the American labs.
Everyone else
The full table puts DeepSeek next to every other lab on one page, and the comparison tool takes any two models side by side.