DeepSeek Chat
Low-cost reasoning-oriented API model with strong price-performance for coding workloads.
Best for: CheapestCoverage: fullRelease: GASynced within 7d
Pricing: Official LiveLimits: Curated OfficialBenchmarks: Third-Party
Current API snapshot
Official pricing, context, and latency normalized into a single current view.
Input price$0.28
Output price$0.42
Context window128K
Latency980 ms
Benchmark snapshot
Curated quality and performance signals from the latest accepted benchmark source.
Intelligence85
Coding88
Throughput97 tok/s
Benchmark sourceArtificial Analysis
Rank persona scores
Same ranking formulas used across the public tables, exposed directly for this model.
Cheapest100.0
Fastest43.0
Smartest44.4
Best value59.3
Formula reference
Persona definitions are fixed and public. The score meanings are strict, not inferred.
CheapestLowest total token cost only.Score = normalized total token cost only, where total cost = input price + output price.
FastestLowest observed latency only.Score = normalized latency only.
SmartestHighest intelligence benchmark score only.Score = normalized intelligence benchmark only.
Best ValueThe most balanced tradeoff between cost, quality, and responsiveness.Score = 45% intelligence + 35% cost + 10% latency + 10% context.
CodingHighest coding benchmark score only.Score = normalized coding benchmark only.
Sources
Every displayed field is tied back to a collected source and timestamp.
pricingofficial · collected Mar 10, 2026https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/
limitsofficial · collected Mar 9, 2026https://api-docs.deepseek.com/
benchmarksbenchmark · collected Mar 9, 2026https://artificialanalysis.ai/
Cost Calculator
Estimate daily and monthly spend for DeepSeek Chat.
Operational notes
Pricing notes: Live sync from DeepSeek official pricing. Comparison uses deepseek-chat cache-hit, cache-miss, and output token rates from the official pricing table.
Data coverage: full
Max output tokens: 8.2K
Rate limit notes: Provider quotas vary by account.
Updated: Mar 10, 2026