DeepSeek R1 API Pricing
DeepSeek R1 is retired from the current price table; this archive preserves the original reasoning price. $0.55/M input, $2.19/M output, and $0.14/M cached input. R1 made global headlines by offering o1-class reasoning at a fraction of OpenAI's original o1 rate.
DeepSeek R1 API cost calculator.
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DeepSeek R1 cost on real workloads.
Repo-wide bug fix
Reading 100-page contracts
Support agent ticket triage
Research planning turn
Counts use a chars-per-token calibration measured on the vendor's own published tokenizer (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, 2026-06-10). English prose is typically within a few percent; code and non-Latin scripts tokenize heavier. For billing-exact counts use the vendor's count-tokens API.
| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 Current | $0.55 cache $0.14 | $2.19 | $0.372 agentic 92/8 | 64K | Low-cost reasoning |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.30 cache $0.006 | $1.20 | $0.15 −2.5× | 1M | Cheap DeepSeek workloads |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.32 cache $0.044 | $3.96 | $0.569 +53% | 1M | Low-cost reasoning |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1.00 cache $0.05 | $5.00 | $0.645 +73% | 1.05M | OpenAI's fast, efficient GPT-6 tier |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 cache $0.10 | $10.00 | $1.29 +3.5× | 1M | Anthropic's current Sonnet |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 +29% · promo | 1M | Mainstream multimodal work |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 cache $0.20 | $2.50 | $0.558 +50% | 1M | Grok long-context agents |
By comparison
DeepSeek R1 has published scores on 2 benchmarks we track; its best placing is #86 of 105 on ARC-AGI-2. All of these scores come from independent leaderboards, not from the lab.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Leader | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 Reasoning | 1.3% ARC Prize verified, best result | #86 of 105 | GPT-6 Astra · 95% | Official leaderboard ARC Prize Foundation |
| ARC-AGI-1 Reasoning | 15.8% ARC Prize verified, best result | #87 of 99 | 6 tied · 98.5% | Official leaderboard ARC Prize Foundation |
DeepSeek R1 API pricing FAQ.
Short answers for teams checking DeepSeek R1 pricing, status, and migration choices.
Q · 01 Is DeepSeek R1 still available? +
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Q · 03 Is cached-input pricing included? +
Q · 04 What should teams compare it against? +
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