DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek. Official list price: $0.55 per 1M input and $2.19 per 1M output tokens.
Official price benchmark
USD per 1M tokens
- input
- $0.550
- output
- $2.19
- cache read
- $0.140
Your budget
Input:output ratio · Similar amounts of input and output
Purchasing power ranking
$100 · DeepSeek R1 · Balanced
Best price
Polza.ai
+39%
providers
1
+39%
Purchasing power ranking
The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.
Some links on this site are partner links. They do not affect prices or ranking. Uptime and latency come from our own GET /models probes every 30 minutes, not a guarantee that the model is available.
Cost estimate
What one request and a month of traffic cost at the selected provider.
per request
$0
per month
$14.67
Polza.ai · +37% · 1.20K / 500
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Frequently asked questions
Answers are generated from the live quotes.
We collect DeepSeek R1 prices two ways: the official DeepSeek list and quotes from providers our crawler checks daily. Providers in our catalogue sell DeepSeek R1 at $0.719 in / $3.09 out (39% above the official list). Everything is normalised to a blended cost at a chosen input:output ratio, so “DeepSeek R1 price per 1M tokens” means the same thing on every page.
What does the DeepSeek R1 API cost?
The official DeepSeek list price is $0.550 per 1M input tokens and $2.19 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.140 per 1M tokens, 4× cheaper than the regular input.
How much does 1 million tokens of DeepSeek R1 cost?
1M input tokens cost $0.550, 1M output tokens — $2.19. With a 1:1 input/output load a million tokens works out to about $1.37. Chatbots with long context push the blended price down; code generation pushes it up.
Where is the DeepSeek R1 API cheapest?
Our measurements show Polza.ai as the lowest quote: 39% above the official list. Quotes from 1 providers refresh daily — see the table above.
What is the DeepSeek R1 context window?
The context window is 200K tokens. Some vendors raise the price above a context threshold — check the plan notes.
How do I check that a provider key works?
The free checker sends a GET request to your endpoint's model list and reports status and latency. The key is not stored server-side.