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DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1

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DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1 official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.7, output 2.5 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: api.ai-gaochao.cn, group "guo_chan" 3.5 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 3.5 · median 7 · highest 14 · 19 quotes USD / 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.

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ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeUnitObservedConditions and source
OpenRouter · Aggregator0.72.5——USD / 1M tokens
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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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Blended price = input × 75% + output × 25%, without cache.

Price range: lowest 3.5 · median 7 · highest 14 (19 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices61101 sites list this model; approximately 1 operators
Lowest input price2USD credits / 1M
Median of each provider’s lowest price2USD credits / 1M

Relays

Prices below are in site credit, not cash.

#ProviderPlan / conditionsInput ↑USD credits / 1MOutput USD credits / 1MCache readUSD credits / 1MBlendedUSD credits / 1MDetails
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01api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected:
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guo_chan
Name on site: deepseek-r1
guo_chan
Operator pending verification
280.53.5Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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Evan
Name on site: deepseek-r1
Evan
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
02api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected:
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GZD
Name on site: deepseek-r1
GZD
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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Premium
Name on site: deepseek-r1
Premium
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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XM
Name on site: deepseek-r1
XM
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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XMGMI
Name on site: deepseek-r1
XMGMI
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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XMboss
Name on site: deepseek-r1
XMboss
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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cc
Name on site: deepseek-r1
cc
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
02api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected:
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default
Name on site: deepseek-r1
default
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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fanshi
Name on site: deepseek-r1
fanshi
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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ggl_an
Name on site: deepseek-r1
ggl_an
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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hershe
Name on site: deepseek-r1
hershe
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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minimax
Name on site: deepseek-r1
minimax
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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stable
Name on site: deepseek-r1
stable
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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temp
Name on site: deepseek-r1
temp
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
02api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected:
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tieta
Name on site: deepseek-r1
tieta
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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vip
Name on site: deepseek-r1
vip
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
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Enterprise users [machine translation]Group on site: 企业用户
Name on site: deepseek-r1
Enterprise users [machine translation]Original: 企业用户
Operator pending verification
41617Median price ÷ this price: 1×Full prices and sources
19api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected:
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svip
Name on site: deepseek-r1
svip
Operator pending verification
832214Median price ÷ this price: 0.5×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
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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

19 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.

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api.ai-gaochao.cn, group "guo_chan", 3.5 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 61 sites have comparable prices.

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