API PRICES
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Provider prices, cheapest first
Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 0.3 / output 1.2 USD/million tokensDeepSeek ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 0.04 / output 0.7 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · Input 87% lower than official · output 42% lower than official ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- 0.35 USD credit/million total tokensmzhcloud.com "Deepseek" ·
Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash official price: input 0.3, output 1.2 USD per million tokens (DeepSeek, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.04, output 0.7 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: mzhcloud.com, group "Deepseek" 0.35 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 200 sites have comparable prices; 488 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 0.525 · median 0.525 · highest 0.525 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 3.5 · median 3.5 · highest 3.5 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.205 · median 0.525 · highest 0.525 · 3 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 3.5 · median 3.5 · highest 3.5 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.35 · median 0.35 · highest 0.35 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.006 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | |
| DeepSeek | 2 | 8 | 0.04 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source |
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 | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.04 | 0.7 | 0.009 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 87% lower · Output 42% lower | |
| Novita AI | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.006 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% | |
| Together AI | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.006 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% | |
| SiliconFlow | 2 | 8 | 0.04 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 0.35 · median 0.35 · highest 0.35 (1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 01 | mzhcloud.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | Deepseek Name on site: deepseek-v4.1-flash High cache DeepSeek [machine translation]Original: 高缓存DeepSeek Operator pending verification | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.004 | 0.35Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 3 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: 2 rows
- Free declaration, listed separately: 1 rows
- zero-ratio group: 1 rows
- api.wapq.cn · Perk [machine translation]Group on site: 福利 · deepseek-v4.1-flash · Input 0 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- realmrouter.cn · Chinese models - test [machine translation]Group on site: 国模-test · deepseek-v4.1-flash · Input 0.12 / Output 0.48 USD credits / 1M
- ai.daoyivip.com · Chinese models test [machine translation]Group on site: 国模测试 · deepseek-v4.1-flash · Input 0.2 / Output 0.8 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 963 recorded prices; 328 can be compared directly (323 ranked, 5 listed separately). Not comparable yet: tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 305, price not parsed yet 192, billed per request or another unit 58, ratio looks unset 33, display unit not confirmed 28, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8
1 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-V4.1-Flash?
mzhcloud.com, group "Deepseek", 0.35 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 200 sites have comparable prices.
What is the official price for DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash?
Input 0.3, output 1.2 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.04, output 0.7 USD per million tokens. Input 87% lower than official.
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