{
  "_meta": {
    "source": "https://apipriceindex.com/api/deepseek/deepseek-chat",
    "attribution": "apipriceindex.com",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "note": "Free to reuse with attribution to apipriceindex.com.",
    "generated_at": "2026-09-05T08:15:05.849Z"
  },
  "id": "deepseek:deepseek-chat",
  "name": "DeepSeek Chat",
  "base_model": "deepseek-chat",
  "provider": {
    "id": "deepseek",
    "name": "DeepSeek",
    "url": "https://deepseek.com"
  },
  "category": "llm-chat",
  "capabilities": [
    "text",
    "function-calling",
    "json-mode"
  ],
  "context_window": 64000,
  "max_output": 8192,
  "pricing": {
    "model_id": "deepseek:deepseek-chat",
    "input": 0.27,
    "output": 1.1,
    "cached_input": 0.07,
    "source_url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing",
    "verified_at": "2026-09-03",
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "Provider page",
        "input": 0.27,
        "output": 1.1,
        "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing",
        "verified_at": "2026-09-03"
      }
    ],
    "confidence": "single-source"
  },
  "price_history": [
    [
      "2026-06-01",
      0.27,
      1.1
    ],
    [
      "2026-09-01",
      0.27,
      1.1
    ]
  ],
  "latency": [
    {
      "model_id": "deepseek:deepseek-chat",
      "region": "eu-paris",
      "ttft_ms": {
        "p50": null,
        "p95": null
      },
      "total_ms": {
        "p50": null,
        "p95": null
      },
      "tokens_per_s": null,
      "samples": 0,
      "error_rate": 1,
      "token_source": "n/a",
      "measured_at": "2026-09-04T18:47:54Z"
    }
  ],
  "license": {
    "license": "MIT",
    "tier": "permissive",
    "open_weights": true,
    "source_url": "https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1"
  },
  "cutoff": {
    "cutoff": "2026-03",
    "label": "March 2026",
    "source_url": "https://aiknowledgecutoff.com/"
  },
  "intelligence": null,
  "quality": null,
  "api": {
    "base_url": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1",
    "model": "deepseek-chat",
    "via": "first-party",
    "key_env": "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY",
    "docs_url": null
  },
  "facts": [
    "DeepSeek Chat costs $0.27 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens.",
    "Cached input cuts the input price by 74%.",
    "Output price has held steady at $1.10 per 1M tokens since 2026-06-01.",
    "A chatbot workload (1000 in / 500 out tokens) costs $0.82 per 1,000 requests.",
    "Handles a 64,000-token context window, up to 8,192 output tokens.",
    "Open weights under MIT — permissive licence.",
    "Training knowledge cutoff: March 2026.",
    "DeepSeek can be tried with no credit card.",
    "13% pricier than the cheapest deepseek-chat endpoint ($1.21 on DeepInfra)."
  ]
}