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DeepSeek R1 Pricing
DeepSeek · deepseek-r1
Input / 1M tokens
$0.500
Output / 1M tokens
$2.15
Context window
163,840 tokens
≈ 218 pages of text
Max output
32,768 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0015
1,000 requests / month$1.46/mo10,000 requests / month$14.60/mo100,000 requests / month$146.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with DeepSeek R1 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.
What it excels at
Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.
The business tradeoff
Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.
Cheaper from DeepSeek
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 25, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.