DeepSeek R1 Pricing — Token Costs & API Calculator
Official API pricing for DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek, with context window, tokenizer details, and a plain-English cost estimate.
Pricing Details
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek |
| Input cost (per 1M tokens) | $0.55 |
| Output cost (per 1M tokens) | $2.19 |
| Context caching | Not supported |
| Batch API discount | Not available |
| Context window | 128k tokens |
| Tokenizer | SentencePiece (Llama family) |
| Thinking / reasoning | Yes — bundled in output token price |
ⓘ Introductory pricing: Retired from DeepSeek's own API on 2026-07-24. Figures reflect third-party hosts and are not vendor-published; verify before relying on them.
Cost example
1,000 requests × 500 input tokens × 200 output tokens costs $0.71/month with DeepSeek R1 at DeepSeek's published rates.
Based on $0.55/1M input tokens and $2.19/1M output tokens.
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