DeepSeek R1 API Pricing
DeepSeek R1 is retired from the current price table; this archive preserves the original reasoning price. $0.55/M input, $2.19/M output, and $0.14/M cached input. R1 made global headlines by offering o1-class reasoning at a fraction of OpenAI's original o1 rate.
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Real-world presets.
Repo-wide bug fix
Reading 100-page contracts
Support agent ticket triage
Research planning turn
Paste text. See tokens. See cost.
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.55 cache $0.14 | $2.19 | $0.37 current page | 64K | Low-cost reasoning |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.14 cache $0.00 | $0.28 | $0.05 cheaper | 1M | Cheap DeepSeek workloads |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.43 cache $0.00 | $0.87 | $0.14 cheaper | 1M | Low-cost reasoning |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.07 | $4.50 | $0.54 pricier | 400K | Open-weight multimodal work |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 cache $0.30 | $15.00 | $1.92 pricier | 1M | Open-weight multimodal work |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.03 | $2.50 | $0.27 cheaper | 1M | Open-weight multimodal work |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 cache $0.20 | $2.50 | $0.56 pricier | 1M | Grok long-context agents |
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Frequently asked.
Short answers for teams checking DeepSeek R1 pricing, status, and migration choices.
Q · 01 Is DeepSeek R1 still available? +
Q · 02 How much does DeepSeek R1 cost? +
Q · 03 Is cached-input pricing included? +
Q · 04 What should teams compare it against? +
deepseek-v4-flash thinking mode.