DeepSeek Chat API

DeepSeek · serves deepseek-chat

Pricing

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Price verified 2026-09-03 (2 days ago) · sourcesingle source

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Latency measured

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Call it

OpenAI-compatible endpoint — set DEEPSEEK_API_KEY.

curl https://api.deepseek.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-chat",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.deepseek.com/v1",
    api_key="...",  # DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price history

2 price points on record · a new point is added only when the price actually changes.

Use this data

Raw JSON for this page: deepseek-chat.json. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to apipriceindex.com.