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: 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.
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.
Price range: lowest 3.5 · median 7 · highest 14 (19 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
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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| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | guo_chan Name on site: deepseek-r1 guo_chan Operator pending verification | 2 | 8 | 0.5 | 3.5Median price ÷ this price: 2× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | Evan Name on site: deepseek-r1 Evan Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | GZD Name on site: deepseek-r1 GZD Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | Premium Name on site: deepseek-r1 Premium Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | XM Name on site: deepseek-r1 XM Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | XMGMI Name on site: deepseek-r1 XMGMI Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | XMboss Name on site: deepseek-r1 XMboss Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | cc Name on site: deepseek-r1 cc Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | default Name on site: deepseek-r1 default Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | fanshi Name on site: deepseek-r1 fanshi Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | ggl_an Name on site: deepseek-r1 ggl_an Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | hershe Name on site: deepseek-r1 hershe Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | minimax Name on site: deepseek-r1 minimax Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | stable Name on site: deepseek-r1 stable Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | temp Name on site: deepseek-r1 temp Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | tieta Name on site: deepseek-r1 tieta Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | vip Name on site: deepseek-r1 vip Operator pending verification | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | 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 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 7Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 19 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 19 plans | svip Name on site: deepseek-r1 svip Operator pending verification | 8 | 32 | 2 | 14Median 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
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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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for DeepSeek · DeepSeek-R1?
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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