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
SwiftRoute
−87%
providers
7
max −87%
Purchasing power ranking
The provider's published prices next to the vendor's official list.
| # | Provider | Input | Output | Cache | Uptime | Latency | Score | Tokens for budget | Save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Official price | $0.550 | $2.19 | $0.140 | — | — | — | 73.0M | 0% |
| 1 | Minimum top-up: $5· Nov 06, 2026 | $0.072 | $0.285 | $0.017 | 100.0% | 616 ms | 96 | 561M | −87% |
| 2 | Minimum top-up: $1· Nov 07, 2026 | $0.111 | $0.444 | $0.030 | 100.0% | 751 ms | 95 | 360M | −80% |
| 3 | Minimum top-up: $5· Nov 09, 2026 | $0.168 | $0.667 | $0.043 | 100.0% | 518 ms | 97 | 240M | −70% |
| 4 | Minimum top-up: ¥20· Nov 09, 2026 | $0.236 | $0.940 | $0.059 | 100.0% | 900 ms | 93 | 170M | −57% |
| 5 | DeepInfradegraded · Nov 10, 2026 | $0.500 | $2.15 | $0.350 | 89.7% | 1.30 s | 81 | 75.5M | −3% |
| 6 | Novita AIoperational · Nov 10, 2026 | $0.700 | $2.50 | $0.350 | 100.0% | 854 ms | 93 | 62.5M | -17% |
| 7 | Polza.aioperational · Nov 10, 2026 | $0.715 | $3.08 | $0.501 | 100.0% | 471 ms | 98 | 52.7M | -38% |
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
$1.39
SwiftRoute · −87% · 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 $0.072 in / $0.285 out (87% below 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 SwiftRoute as the cheapest: 87% below the official price (sample listing). Quotes from 7 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.