First-party APIs OpenAI-compatible CN

DeepSeek Platform.

DeepSeek's first-party API for V3, R1, and the R1-Distill family. Among the lowest published per-token rates on frontier-tier models.

Cheapest 12 models

Where the floor is.

Sorted cheapest-first by $/M input. Useful when you're looking for the floor before picking a model.

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At a glance

Service type
First-party APIs
Trust tier
Tier 1
Headquarters
CN
OpenAI-compat
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Proprietary
No

When to pick DeepSeek Platform

Best for

  • Full feature coverage — prompt caching, batch tier, function calling, fine-tuning.
  • The lowest per-token rate for the maker's own models.
  • Production workloads where a direct billing relationship matters.

Avoid for

  • Multi-model workflows that need a unified billing surface.
  • Anywhere the maker's own SLA isn't sufficient.

Models on DeepSeek Platform

Pricing + measured speed + self-host alternative, one row per model. Click a column header to sort.

25 models · 0 benchmarked
Model ↕ Maker ↕ Access ↕ $/M in ↕ $/M out ↕ Tokens/sec ↕ TTFT ↕ Self-host on ↕
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek api direct $0.32 $0.89 API only Open →
DeepSeek: R1 0528 DeepSeek api direct $0.5 $2.15 2× AMD MI325 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek api direct $0.2 $0.77 API only Open →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia RTX 3080 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia P102-100 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia Titan V · FP8 Open →
DeepSeek Coder V2 236B DeepSeek api direct 1× AMD MI300 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia RTX 3080 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia RTX A5000 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek api direct 1× Nvidia P102-100 · INT4 Open →
Deepseek OCR 2 DeepSeek api direct API only Open →
Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct DeepSeek api direct 1× AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek-V3-0324 DeepSeek api direct 2× AMD MI325 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek-V3.1 DeepSeek api direct API only Open →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek api direct $0.7 $0.8 1× Nvidia L40S · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek api direct $0.29 $0.29 1× Nvidia RTX A5000 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek api direct $0.435 $0.87 API only Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek api direct $0.1 $0.2 API only Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale DeepSeek api direct $0.287 $0.431 API only Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek api direct $0.252 $0.378 API only Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp DeepSeek api direct $0.27 $0.41 2× AMD MI325 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek api direct $0.27 $0.95 API only Open →
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek api direct $0.21 $0.79 API only Open →
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek api direct $0.55 $2.19 2× AMD MI325 · INT4 Open →
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek api direct $0.27 $1.1 2× AMD MI325 · INT4 Open →