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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 API Pricing
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 costs $0.257 per 1M input tokens and $1.03 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 164K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.257
Output / 1M tokens
$1.03
Context window
164K
Max output
16K
What would DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $6.17 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $20.58 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $46.32 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $12.35 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, the reported evaluations...
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