Deepseek Chat
Deepseek Chat is a language model from DeepSeek released on Dec 1, 2025. It reads text and files and writes text, with a 128K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.425 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.05, 50% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
6 providers serve it, including NanoGPT, OrcaRouter and Eden AI.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.10 / $0.425 per 1M
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 8K
- Released
- Dec 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Deepseek Chat pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.10 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.425 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.05 / 1M tokens | 50% off input |
Deepseek Chat providers
6 providers serve it, including NanoGPT, OrcaRouter and Eden AI. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | $0.10 | $0.425 | $0.05 | 128K | 8K |
| OrcaRouter | $0.147 | $0.295 | $0.02 | 1M | 384K |
| Eden AI | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | 131K | 384K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.32 | $0.89 | – | 164K | 16K |
| AI/ML API | $0.39 | $1.56 | $0.0078 | 1M | 384K |
| AnyAPI | n/a | n/a | – | 1M | 384K |
What Deepseek Chat costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Deepseek Chat through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Deepseek Chat questions
How much does the Deepseek Chat API cost?
$0.10 per million input tokens and $0.425 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Deepseek Chat?
128,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Deepseek Chat?
6 providers serve it, including NanoGPT, OrcaRouter and Eden AI. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Deepseek Chat support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Deepseek Chat open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Deepseek Chat released?
Dec 1, 2025, with training data up to Sep 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Deepseek Chat?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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