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DeepSeek: R1 API Pricing
DeepSeek: R1 costs $0.700 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 64K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 · source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.700
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
64K
Max output
16K
What would DeepSeek: R1 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $15.60 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $53.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $121.50 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $33.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About DeepSeek: R1
DeepSeek R1 is here: 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 in an inference pass....