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2025-09Price Data Last Verified: April 22, 2026
DeepSeek Reasoner API Pricing & Cost Calculator
Thinking-mode DeepSeek pricing from the official current API docs using non-cached input pricing.
Pricing Details
- Provider
- DeepSeek
- Input Price
- $0.28 / 1M tokens
- Output Price
- $0.42 / 1M tokens
- Context Window
- 128K
Cost Scenarios
Small Request$0.0007
Medium Request$0.007
Large Request$0.049
High Volume$0.49
Detailed Cost Breakdown
| Scenario | Input Tokens | Output Tokens | Input Cost | Output Cost | Total Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Request | 1,000 | 1,000 | $0.0003 | $0.0004 | $0.0007 |
| Medium Request | 10,000 | 10,000 | $0.0028 | $0.0042 | $0.007 |
| Large Request | 100,000 | 50,000 | $0.028 | $0.021 | $0.049 |
| High Volume | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | $0.28 | $0.21 | $0.49 |
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