API PRICES
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1
Provider prices, cheapest first
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.7, output 2.5 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: aws.baby, group "Alibaba Cloud selected special offers [machine translation] (on site: 阿里云精选特惠)" 0.5 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 61 sites have comparable prices; 101 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.15 · median 1.15 · highest 1.15 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
USD_CREDIT · Lowest 0.5 · median 3.5 · highest 7 · 31 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
CNY_CREDIT · Lowest 0.92 · median 5.6 · highest 12.9153846154 · 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.7 | 2.5 | — | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
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Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 25 | api.xistree.hkAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 25 | sg.uiuiapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1 ⭐ Default (mixed channels) | Azure + official models [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 默认（混渠道）| Azure + 官模型 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 25 | xiaoma.bestAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1 Default channel - best value for money, most recommended, has claude series models, no gpt or gemini [machine translation]Original: 默认渠道 - 性价比最高最推荐，有claude系列模型，没有gpt和gemini Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 0.8 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 25 | xinsuanai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1 Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 25 | yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | deepseek Name on site: deepseek-r1 Deepseek channel [machine translation]Original: Deepseek渠道 Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | — | 7Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 31 | ai.bytonsec.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | KILO Name on site: deepseek-r1 Operator pending verification | 4.2 | 14.99988 | — | 6.89997Median price ÷ this price: 0.507248582240212638605675097138103499× | Full prices and sources |
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| 01 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | Azure-Ⅰ Name on site: deepseek-r1 Azure 0.2x rate multiplier group [machine translation]Original: Azure 0.2倍率分组 Operator pending verification | 0.8 | 3.2 | — | 1.4Median price ÷ this price: 2.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 2 plans | Chinese models special price [machine translation]Group on site: 国产特价 Name on site: deepseek-r1 Chinese models special price [machine translation]Original: 国产特价 Operator pending verification | 2.8 | 11.2 | — | 4.9Median price ÷ this price: 0.714285714285714285714285714285714286× | Full prices and sources |
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| — | api.hubagi.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | Baidu official [machine translation]Group on site: 百度官方 Name on site: deepseek-r1 Baidu official [machine translation]Original: 百度官方 Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.2296 | 0.9176 | — | 0.4016Median price ÷ this price: 8.715139442230463727758289593931467172× | Full prices and sources |
| — | api.hubagi.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | Exclusively for Xueqiu (Snowball) [machine translation]Group on site: 雪球专供 Name on site: deepseek-r1 Exclusively for Xueqiu (Snowball) [machine translation]Original: 雪球专供 Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.2296 | 0.9176 | — | 0.4016Median price ÷ this price: 8.715139442230463727758289593931467172× | Full prices and sources |
| — | api.hubagi.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | deepseek Name on site: deepseek-r1 deepseek Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.287 | 1.147 | — | 0.502Median price ÷ this price: 6.972111553784370982206631675145173738× | Full prices and sources |
| — | api.hubagi.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | Alibaba official [machine translation]Group on site: 阿里官方 Name on site: deepseek-r1 Alibaba official [machine translation]Original: 阿里官方 Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 0.287 | 1.147 | — | 0.502Median price ÷ this price: 6.972111553784370982206631675145173738× | Full prices and sources |
| — | api.xhuoai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans | Enterprise channel [machine translation]Group on site: 企业渠道 Name on site: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 OpenAI/Claude enterprise-grade channel, top choice for top speed and stability, ultra-high concurrency, features identical to official, 5.6/10 of list price, rate multiplier 4.0 [machine translation]Original: OpenAI/Claude企业级渠道，追求极速稳定首选，超高并发，功能与官方完全一致，5.6折，倍率4.0 Note: far from other providers’ prices. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification | 16 | 64 | — | 28Median price ÷ this price: 0.125× | Full prices and sources |
Related variants · 14 rows · not ranked
These are special editions of the model (thinking, max, search, batch, long context, free, etc.). They are priced differently from the base model, so they are listed separately and not ranked. Names that only add an effort level such as low, high or nothinking are compared with the base model.
- deepseek-r1-searching (-searching · search or tool): 9 rows
- deepseek-r1-search (-search · search or tool): 5 rows
- api.xhuoai.com · deepseek · deepseek-r1-search · Input 2.4 / Output 9.6 USD credits / 1M
- api.xhuoai.com · deepseek · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 2.4 / Output 9.6 USD credits / 1M
- api.xhuoai.com · default · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- api.xhuoai.com · default · deepseek-r1-search · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- api.xistree.hk · default · deepseek-r1-search · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- api.xistree.hk · default · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- xinsuanai.com · default · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- zen-ai.top · default · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 4 / Output 16 USD credits / 1M
- hohoapi.com · default · deepseek-r1-search · Input 5.2 / Output 20.8 USD credits / 1M
- xinsuanai.com · vip · deepseek-r1-searching · Input 12 / Output 48 USD 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 332 recorded prices; 186 can be compared directly (167 ranked, 19 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 97, ratio looks unset 13, billed per request or another unit 9, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 9, display unit not confirmed 8, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8
137 recent · 8 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.
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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1?
aws.baby, group "阿里云精选特惠 (Alibaba Cloud selected special offers)", 0.5 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 61 sites have comparable prices.
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