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DeepSeek V3 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

DeepSeek V3 was released on December 26, 2024. Pricing starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 164K tokens. API access is available through Deepseek.

Context Window
164K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.300
Output$1.20
Cached$0.150
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
ToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare DeepSeek V3 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.300
$1.200
163,840
Try
$0.300
$2.500
62.5
83.6
76.6
1,048,576
Try
$0.300
$1.200
65,536
Try
$0.300
$1.200
84.8
204,800
Try
$0.300
$0.900
41.1
75.2
56.6
131,072
Try
$0.300
$2.500
32,768
Try
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.300
$0.900
256,000
Try
$0.300
$2.500
49.5
80.9
68.3
1,048,576
Try
$0.300
$0.500
131,072
Try
$0.300
$1.200
34.3
76.2
61.3
40,960
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

DeepSeek V3 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

4
Providers
$0.014
Cheapest Input/M
$0.028
Cheapest Output/M
DeepSeek
Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
Best Price
$0.014
$0.028
-
C
Chutes
$0.300
$1.200
99.8%
D
DeepInfra
$0.320
$0.890
99.6%
N
Novita
$0.400
$1.300
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

DeepSeek V3 costs $0.000300 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001200 per 1,000 output tokens.
DeepSeek V3 is available from 4 provider(s). DeepSeek offers the best price.
We compare DeepSeek V3 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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