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DeepSeek API (Compute)

Compute

api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/Inference APIcompute/deepseek-apiJSONcomparereport an error

Free allowance
No free grant on the vendor's own pricing page. deepseek-flash is USD 0.15 per 1M input tokens on a cache miss and USD 0.60 per 1M output off-peak, doubling at peak; cache hits cost USD 0.003 per 1M off-peak.
Verdict
paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost
no price stated
Identity
cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit
volume-quotanothing binds but the balance: 2,500 concurrent requests is the highest concurrency in this class, about eight times Cloudflare's 300 requests a minute, so the only ceiling is the prepaid balance and USD 0.15 per 1M input makes a large...
Evidence
documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
Free tierNo free grant on the vendor's own pricing page. deepseek-flash is USD 0.15 per 1M input tokens on a cache miss and USD 0.60 per 1M output off-peak, doubling at peak; cache hits cost USD 0.003 per 1M off-peak. The concurrency limit is 2,500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro, at account level, and 'There is no additional cost for capacity expansion'. Context is 1M tokens with 384K maximum output.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • volume-quota (binding) nothing binds but the balance: 2,500 concurrent requests is the highest concurrency in this class, about eight times Cloudflare's 300 requests a minute, so the only ceiling is the prepaid balance and USD 0.15 per 1M input makes a large job cheap rather than free. source
Identitycard sign-up outside mainland China takes an email address with an emailed code ('Only email registration is supported in your region') or a Google account, and no phone number; the API then draws on a prepaid balance and an empty balance is refused with 402 Insufficient Balance, so the capacity needs a balance topped up online by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay; whether a new account receives a granted balance is not published and is unverified: behind a sign-up
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withthe off-peak window is the chain that matters: at USD 0.15 per 1M input and 2,500 concurrency a weekend batch is the cheapest job in this class and needs no free tier at all.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesNo signup grant appears on the vendor's pricing page, which prices every model. Identity: sign-up on the international lane is an email address, and the API is usable only after a prepaid top-up by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay, so the binding identity is a payment method.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
  • volume-quota 300 requests / minute
Evidence 7
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/'1M INPUT TOKENS (CACHE MISS) OFF-PEAK $0.15 PEAK $0.3' and '1M OUTPUT TOKENS OFF-PEAK $0.6 PEAK $1.2' for deepseek-flash, quoted
2026-10-22api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limit/'Concurrency Limit 2500' for deepseek-flash, 'calculated at the account level', quoted
2026-10-22api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/peak hours are '01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday', so every other hour including weekends is off-peak, quoted
2026-11-03api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/error_codesan empty balance is refused with 402 Insufficient Balance, so the API needs a topped-up balance
2026-11-03static.deepseek.com/faq/static/main.86961ff339.jsa balance is topped up online by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay
2026-11-03platform.deepseek.com/sign_upthe sign-up page served outside mainland China offers email registration only
2026-11-03api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limitthe concurrency limit is 2500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro
More fields 1
facets{"class": "cheapest-paid","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}
Unknown values 7
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field

DeepSeek API (Inference)

Inference

api-docs.deepseek.com/Inference endpoint, paidinference/deepseek-apiJSONcomparereport an error

Free allowance
No free tier or signup credit is stated: usage is deducted from a topped-up balance or a granted balance, granted balance first, and no granted amount is published
Verdict
paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost
no price stated
Identity
cardcard required, phone required
Binding limit
noneno named constraint binds
Evidence
documented33 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
Free tierno free tier or signup credit is stated: usage is deducted from a topped-up balance or a granted balance, granted balance first, and no granted amount is published
unit none; metered on none; a granted balance can expire: the balance endpoint reports granted_balance as the total not expired granted balance, in CNY or USD; topped-up balances do not expire and an unused balance can be refunded; whether a new account receives a granted balance, and its amount and expiry, are not published on the documentation, terms or help-centre pages and are unverified: behind a sign-up
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • request-rate concurrency limit per account, counted across all API keys: 2500 concurrent requests for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro; HTTP 429 above the limit; higher concurrency is available on request at no additional cost source
the published limit is account-level concurrency, 2500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro, with higher concurrency available on request at no additional cost; the rate-limit page publishes no requests-per-minute or token quota
Identitycard an API key from an account on platform.deepseek.com, registered by email address with an emailed code or by a Google account; the sign-up page served outside mainland China offers email registration only, WeChat login is limited to mainland-China addresses, and some email domains are refused (Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail or Yahoo are recommended); calls draw on a prepaid balance and an empty balance is refused with an Insufficient Balance error; top-up is online by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay; the Chinese-language FAQ puts real-name verification (an ID number) before an Alipay or WeChat top-up and opens bank transfer only to enterprise-verified accounts registered with a China-country-code phone number; whether an email-registered account must pass real-name verification before a PayPal or card top-up is unverified: behind a sign-up
Egressnot published
Interfacerest
endpoint: https://api.deepseek.com
Toolingany OpenAI-compatible client; curl against POST {base}/chat/completions
Composes withpairs with an agent as the cheapest paid per-token route; the scarce link is the prepaid balance, not a rate
Reliabilitythe legacy model names deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp are retired and their requests are now served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at the Flash price
NotesPrices per 1M tokens, deepseek-flash / deepseek-v4-pro: input cache hit off-peak USD 0.003 / USD 0.022 and peak USD 0.006 / USD 0.044; input cache miss off-peak USD 0.15 / USD 0.66 and peak USD 0.3 / USD 1.32; output off-peak USD 0.6 / USD 1.98 and peak USD 1.2 / USD 3.96. Off-peak rates are half of the peak rates; peak hours are 01:00 - 04:00 and 06:00 - 10:00 UTC, Monday through Friday, excluding Chinese public holidays
Evidence notedocumented the model naming, the retirement of the legacy names, the per-token prices and the concurrency limits are quoted from the first-party pricing and rate-limit pages
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
Evidence 33
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingthe served models are deepseek-flash and deepseek-v4-pro; deepseek-flash is served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017; the legacy names are accepted but their models are retired and billed at the Flash price; OpenAI and Anthropic compatible base URLs
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limitthe concurrency limit is 2500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limithigher concurrency is granted on request at no additional cost
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingusage is deducted from a topped-up balance or a granted balance, granted balance first; no amount is stated
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/api/get-user-balancethe balance endpoint's granted_balance is the total not expired granted balance
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/error_codesan empty balance returns 402 Insufficient Balance and the fix is to top up on platform.deepseek.com
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingthe pricing page tabulates the per-token prices and defines the peak hours
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingthe OpenAI-format base URL is https://api.deepseek.com
2026-10-28api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingthe legacy names are retired and served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at the Flash price
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/top-upa balance is topped up online by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay
2026-10-30platform.deepseek.com/sign_upthe sign-up page served outside mainland China offers email registration only, with a code sent to the address
2026-10-30platform.deepseek.com/sign_upthe email sign-up form sends a code to the address
2026-10-30cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-terms-of-use.htmlan account is registered with an email address or a third-party account
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/wechat-WeChat login is limited to mainland-China addresses
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/google-Google login is offered outside mainland China
2026-10-30platform.deepseek.com/top_upthe top-up page is behind a login that offers a Google account
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/unsupposome email domains are refused at registration; Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail or Yahoo are recommended
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=zh#/question/top-upthe Chinese-language FAQ puts real-name verification before an online Alipay or WeChat top-up
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=zh#/question/top-upbank transfer is for enterprise accounts only, and currently only for accounts registered with a +86 phone number
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/verificreal-name verification binds an account to an ID number, with a cap on accounts per ID number
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/static/main.86961ff339.jsthe help-centre FAQ (served from its script bundle) states that topped-up balances do not expire
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=zh#/question/balancethe Chinese-language FAQ states that topped-up balances never expire
2026-10-30static.deepseek.com/faq/index.html?lang=en#/question/refund-an unused balance can be refunded
2026-10-30api-docs.deepseek.com/api/get-user-balancea balance is held in CNY or USD
2026-10-30cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-termsthe Open Platform terms leave any free quota to the product pages, and the documentation pages publish none
2026-10-30api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingthe pricing page is unchanged: usage is deducted from a topped-up or granted balance, granted first, and no granted amount is stated
2026-11-03platform.deepseek.com/sign_upthe sign-up page served outside mainland China offers email registration only
2026-11-03api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/error_codesan empty balance is refused with 402 Insufficient Balance, so the API needs a topped-up balance
2026-11-03api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limitthe concurrency limit is 2500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro
2026-11-03api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricingusage is deducted from a topped-up or granted balance, granted first, and no granted amount is stated
2026-11-03cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-termsthe Open Platform terms leave any free quota to the product pages, and the documentation pages publish none
2026-11-03cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-terms-of-use.htmlan account is registered with an email address or a third-party account
2026-11-03static.deepseek.com/faq/static/main.86961ff339.jsa balance is topped up online by PayPal, bank card, Alipay or WeChat Pay
Unknown values 3
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer

DeepSeek Files API

Storage

api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_apiChinese LLM platform /v1/filesstorage/deepseek-files-apiJSONcomparereport an error

Free allowance
25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file.
Verdict
fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
Cost
free tier
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
per-object-cap64 MiB per file
Evidence
reported6 sources; a third party said so
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
Free tier25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if expires_after is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.
unit GiB; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • per-object-cap (binding) 64 MiB per file source
per-object-cap 64 MiB. Upload must complete within 10 minutes. Count cap 10,000 files. purpose must be user_data. Omit expires_after for permanence — '少写一个参数，文件就永久留在他服务器上' (omit one parameter and the file stays on their server forever).
Identityemail email
EgressFiles API itself is free; only inference tokens are billed. No egress fee documented.
Per-object cap64 MiB per file (67108864 bytes)
Retention25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if expires_after is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days
Interfaceunknown OpenAI-compatible POST /files, and an Anthropic-compatible /anthropic/v1/files; also list/retrieve/delete
Toolingopenai-python with base_url https://api.deepseek.com; curl multipart; ai-sdk deepseek provider ships a file store
Composes with25 GiB is per user, not per project — no obvious multiplicative axis except more accounts. Image-only format restriction (JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP, sniffed from content) makes it a picture store rather than a blob store.
ReliabilityNO DOWNLOAD. The endpoint set is upload/list/retrieve-metadata/delete — there is no content-download route, and the docs describe retrieval as metadata only ('Retrieving file information returns metadata; it is not a request for the model to read the image'). 25 GiB of write-only image storage. Also: DeepSeek's platform forces phone binding on first login for some account classes (platform.deepseek.com/mobile_verification — 'please bind your phone number upon first login'), while international email+password signup is reported to work. Uncertain, hence medium.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 1
  • per-object-cap 64 MiB
Evidence 6
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api'A single file may be at most 64 MiB'; 'expires_after[seconds] … between 3600 and 2592000. Omit both expires_after fields to keep the file permanently'; supported formats JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP only
2026-10-21www.datastudios.org/post/deepseek-file-uploading-supported-f'25 GiB of stored files per user; up to 10,000 stored files'
2026-10-21news.cnyes.com/news/id/6584205'單個文件最大 64 MiB，每個用戶最多存 25 GiB、10000 個文件 … 不設定有效期則可以一直保留'
2026-10-21linux.do/top?page=395'DeepSeek 上线 Files API，每用户 25 GiB 永不过期！… 仅支持图片格式，单文件限制 64 MiB' (post dated 2026-08-21)
2026-10-21chat-deep.ai/docs/deepseek-api-file-upload/part of the text of Reliability, above
2026-10-21api.deepseek.com/filesPROBE: curl -D - -> 401, Content-Length 31, body 'Authentication Fails (governor)' — live, ELB + CloudFront fronted
More fields 1
dead end{"failure_class": "retention","why": "25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"}
Unknown values 3
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read