deepseek
DeepSeek: R1 0528 API Pricing
DeepSeek: R1 0528 costs $0.500 per 1M input tokens and $2.15 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.350). Context window: 164K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.500
Output / 1M tokens
$2.15
Context window
164K
Max output
33K
What would DeepSeek: R1 0528 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $12.60 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $41.50 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $92.25 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $24.30 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About DeepSeek: R1 0528
May 28th update to the [original DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1) Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active...
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