DeepSeek

DeepSeek API pricing calculator

Use one workload baseline to estimate monthly spend across every tracked DeepSeek model — input, cached-input, and output tokens included. Rank DeepSeek against 10 other providers on the same traffic pattern.

DeepSeek models · same workload baseline · last update: Wednesday 7th October 2026

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These are estimates, not measured usage. Edit the inputs or choose a preset.

Synced Oct 7, 2026
Edit assumptions · 50,000 requests/month · 800 tokens/request · 82% input · 55% of input cached

50K requests / mo

800 tokens avg

Step 2

Lowest estimated cost

Top 2 models for this workload (unreviewed and conditional tariffs excluded)

General intelligence is not a task-specific quality guarantee. Test shortlisted models on your own examples. Source reviewed — exact offer checked on its provider page. Needs review — missing, stale or conflicting evidence; excluded from default recommendations. Estimates cover input/cache-read/output tokens only. Cache writes, storage, tools, search fees, taxes and unconfigured billing conditions are additional. Include billed reasoning tokens in your output estimate.

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DeepSeek V4-1-FLASH (peak)

DeepSeek · focus model for this workload

Estimated monthly cost (USD)

$13.18

Based on: 50K requests · 656 input tokens/request · 144 output tokens/request · 55% of input from cache

Input $4.54 Cached 18.04M tok Output $8.64
Total tokens40.00M
Per 1k requests$0.26
Rank#14

Token costs only. Tool calls, search, storage, regional pricing, commitment discounts, and taxes may be excluded.

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Step 3

DeepSeek models

4 models · DeepSeek

Estimated monthly cost

$13.18

Rank #2 of 4 · lowest for this workload · Source reviewed

How costs are calculated

Prices from ai-provider-pricing-validated.json, validated Wednesday 7th October 2026. Confirm on official provider pages before billing decisions. Dataset contains 95 offer records, including archived entries and offers that require additional billing inputs or price evidence. Only reviewed offers appear in this calculator. See excluded offers and reasons

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How we calculate cost

Monthly estimate = (input tokens × input $/MTok) + (cached tokens × cached $/MTok when published) + (output tokens × output $/MTok), scaled to your message volume. See the methodology for validation sources and update cadence.

Provider scenarios

Workloads teams model on DeepSeek

Illustrative patterns for DeepSeek pricing — start from a preset, then refine tokens from your usage dashboard.

“Estimate support traffic on DeepSeek using measured input and output tokens; apply cache discounts only when supported.”
DeepSeek · support botSupport preset · 55% cache
“RAG on DeepSeek should use the retrieval preset so repeated context is priced at the cached-input rate when available.”
DeepSeek · RAGRAG preset · 65% cache
“Coding assistants on DeepSeek need longer average tokens — the code preset is a better planning baseline than chat defaults.”
DeepSeek · code assistantCode preset · long context
“Before shipping agents on DeepSeek, compare monthly cost at your expected tool-call volume — not a single-turn demo.”
DeepSeek · agentsAgent preset · multi-step I/O