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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. Relays have only older quotes; the lowest is ai-api.loft.games, group "test" 1.134 CNY_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-10). 63 sites have comparable prices; 107 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.

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	0.7	2.5	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-16	Official source

Unit: CNY 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.

sites have comparable prices63107 sites list this model; approximately 3 operators

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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
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—	i.v1api.ccAsk or discussCollected: 10 Oct 2026, 07:25 UTC View 1 plans	deepseek Name on site: deepseek-r1-search 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 Related variant: deepseek-r1-search (-search · search or tool)	2.4	9.6	—	4.2	Full prices and sources
—	paw.v1chat.ccAsk or discussCollected: 10 Oct 2026, 07:29 UTC View 1 plans	default Name on site: deepseek-r1-searching Standard channel, Gemini stability average, about 2.5/10 of the official price [machine translation]Original: 标准渠道，Gemini稳定性一般，约官方2.5折 Related variant: deepseek-r1-searching (-searching · search or tool)	4	16	—	7	Full prices and sources
—	api.34ku.comAsk or discussCollected: 10 Oct 2026, 07:15 UTC View 1 plans	default Name on site: deepseek-r1-searching Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Related variant: deepseek-r1-searching (-searching · search or tool)	5.2	20.8	—	9.1	Full prices and sources

How this ranking works

All per-token prices: 96,427 prices from 839 sites (about 733 companies). 88,950 are ranked, from 826 sites (about 720 companies); 7,477 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-10.

This model has 340 recorded prices; 188 can be compared directly (171 ranked, 17 listed separately). Not comparable yet: new price under review; showing the previous one 54, price not parsed yet 46, display unit not confirmed 12, ratio looks unset 12, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 11, billed per request or another unit 9, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8

0 recent · 3 stale (older than 7 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 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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