API PRICES
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1-0528
Provider prices, cheapest first
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1-0528 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: DeepInfra, input 0.5, output 2.15 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: i.v1api.cc, group "deepseek" 4.2 CNY_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 35 sites have comparable prices; 65 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.9125 · median 0.9125 · highest 1.15 · 3 quotes USD / per million tokens
Relay CNY credit prices · Lowest 4.2 · median 4.2 · highest 7 · 3 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | 0.5 | 2.15 | 0.35 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | |
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.5 | 2.15 | 0.35 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | |
| Novita AI | 0.7 | 2.5 | 0.35 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Unit: CNY credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 4.2 · median 4.2 · highest 7 (3 quotes, CNY credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑CNY credits / 1M | Output CNY credits / 1M | Cache readCNY credits / 1M | BlendedCNY credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 01 | i.v1api.ccAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | china Name on site: deepseek-r1-0528 Chinese models, Alibaba channel, Kimi/Minimax/Deepseek, 60% of list price, rate multiplier 0.6 [machine translation]Original: 国产模型，阿里渠道，Kimi/Minimax/Deepseek，6折，倍率0.6 Operator pending verification | 2.4 | 9.6 | — | 4.2Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | i.v1api.ccAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | deepseek Name on site: deepseek-r1-0528 Deepseek stable channel, Chinese model, strong coding ability, very high value for money, 50% of list price, rate multiplier 0.6 [machine translation]Original: Deepseek稳定渠道，国产模型，代码能力强，性价比极高，5折，倍率0.6 Operator pending verification | 2.4 | 9.6 | — | 4.2Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | i.v1api.ccAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1-0528 Default group, supports all common models, top value-for-money choice, 20% of list price, rate multiplier 1.0 [machine translation]Original: 默认分组，支持所有常用模型，性价比首选，2折，倍率1.0 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.6× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 1 rows · not ranked
These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.
- test or debug group: 1 rows
- ai-api.loft.games · test · deepseek-r1-0528 · Input 0.648 / Output 2.592 CNY credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 191 recorded prices; 103 can be compared directly (102 ranked, 1 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 54, ratio looks unset 23, billed per request or another unit 5, display unit not confirmed 4, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 2
3 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1-0528?
i.v1api.cc, group "deepseek", 4.2 CNY credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 35 sites have comparable prices.
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