DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3, the widely used open-weight MoE chat model, available across inference gateways at low cost.

ActiveAvailable from 10 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: DeepSeek API models, DeepSeek models

Price per 1M tokens via StreamLake (OpenRouter)
$0.2002 in / $0.8001 out
Context window131,072
Max output8,192
ModalitiesText → Text
Priced across10 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legRate
Input$0.2002 / M
Output$0.8001 / M

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Estimated monthly cost
$56.04
at current list prices
Fresh input$40.04
Output$16.00
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
StreamLakeLowest
$0.2002$0.8001——via OpenRouter
DeepInfra
$0.24$0.9$0.135—via OpenRouter
SiliconFlow
$0.25$1——via OpenRouter
Novita
$0.27$1.12$0.135—via OpenRouter
GMICloud
$0.29$1.14$0.11—via OpenRouter
Fireworks AI
$0.56$1.68——Direct
Together AI
$0.6$1.7——Direct
Azure AI Foundry
$1.14$4.56——Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Data zone
$1.25$5——Direct
Azure AI Foundry · Regional
from$1.25$5——Direct

Regional deployments are priced per region; the lowest available region rate is shown.

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
July 10, 2026 – July 17, 2026$0.2002 / $0.8001past
July 17, 2026 – July 19, 2026$0.2002 / $0.8001past
July 19, 2026$0.2002 / $0.8001current

More from DeepSeek

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$1.74 / $3.48 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-V4 Flash
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$0.14 / $0.28 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-V3.2
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2
$0.269 / $0.4 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-V3.1
deepseek/deepseek-v3.1
$0.25 / $0.95 in / out per 1M
DeepSeek-R1
deepseek/deepseek-r1
$0.5 / $2.15 in / out per 1M

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