DeepSeek Chat (deepseek-chat) pricing
DeepSeek Chat (deepseek-chat) is an API model from DeepSeek. It costs $0.28 per million input tokens and $0.42 per million output tokens, with a 131K-token context window. At a blended $0.32 per million tokens it ranks #6 cheapest of 46 tracked models (budget band).
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.28
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.42
- Cached input / 1M
- $0.028
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.32
- Context window
- 131K
- Max output
- 8K
- Vision · Tools · Reasoning
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- Listed since
- Jan 4, 2025
What it costs
| Workload | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|
| Chatbot reply2,000 input + 500 output tokens | $0.77 |
| RAG / search answer8,000 input + 700 output tokens | $2.53 |
| Long-document summary100,000 input + 2,000 output tokens | $28.84 |
Price history
| First observed | Input | Output | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.42 | -34% blended |
| Feb 8, 2025 | $0.27 | $1.10 | +173% blended |
| Jan 4, 2025 | $0.14 | $0.28 | listed |
Dates are the week a price first appeared in the public price list we track, not necessarily the provider's announcement date.
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