API & Developer Access

Pay per use, no minimum spend2 min read
Input / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokensRelative Cost
DeepSeek V3.2$0.28$0.421x (baseline)
Gemini 1.5 Pro$1.25$5.00~4x to 12x more
GPT-4o$2.50$10.00~9x to 24x more
Claude Sonnet 4.6$3.00$15.00~11x to 36x more
Claude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.00~18x to 60x more

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V3.2 input per 1M tokens

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Cache hit input per 1M tokens

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V3.2 output per 1M tokens

OpenAI compatibility

DeepSeek's API uses the OpenAI API format. Switch from OpenAI by changing the base URL to https://api.deepseek.com and swapping your API key. No code rewrite needed. The model IDs are deepseek-chat (V3.2) and deepseek-reasoner (R1).
Notes
OpenRouterUnified API for 100+ models; useful for comparing models side by side
Together AIUS hosted infrastructure; good for data sovereignty concerns
Fireworks AIFast inference optimized for low latency applications
GroqUltra fast inference on custom LPU hardware
OllamaRun locally on your own machine; supports distilled R1 variants