DeepSeek V3 API Pricing
DeepSeek V3 is retired from the current price table; this archive preserves the $0.27/$1.10 baseline. $0.27/M input, $1.1/M output, and $0.07/M cached input. It is kept for the Jan 2025 price shock and migration comparisons against V4 Flash.
Run the numbers.
Calculator pre-loaded with DeepSeek V3 rates. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache hit rate to compare this model with nearby alternatives.
Real-world presets.
Repo-wide bug fix
Reading 100-page contracts
Support agent ticket triage
Research planning turn
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 V3 Current | $0.27 cache $0.07 | $1.10 | $0.186 agentic 92/8 | 128K | Cheap DeepSeek workloads |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −19% | 1M | Cheap DeepSeek workloads |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.32 cache $0.044 | $3.96 | $0.569 +3.1× | 1M | Low-cost reasoning |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $4.50 | $0.541 +2.9× | 400K | Subagents and lightweight coding |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 cache $0.30 | $15.00 | $2.05 +11× | 1M | Current Claude agents |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +2.6× · promo | 1M | Mainstream multimodal work |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 cache $0.20 | $2.50 | $0.558 +3.0× | 1M | Grok long-context agents |
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Frequently asked.
Short answers for teams checking DeepSeek V3 pricing, status, and migration choices.
Q · 01 Is DeepSeek V3 still available? +
Q · 02 How much does DeepSeek V3 cost? +
Q · 03 Is cached-input pricing included? +
Q · 04 What should teams compare it against? +
deepseek-v4-flash non-thinking mode.