Historical model (legacy). The rates below are the last recorded rates, not a recommendation for a new deployment.
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DeepSeek R1 API Pricing
DeepSeek R1 costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $7.00 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $3.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $7.00 |
Verified 2026-05-23 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$10.00
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.475
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$44.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
Not listed
Together AI does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.
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Input cost
$3.00
Output cost
$7.00
Total
$10.00
Price history
No list-price movement across 208 daily snapshots from 2026-04-16 to 2026-11-11.
When to use DeepSeek R1
Good fit
- reasoning-heavy prompts, planning, analysis, and multi-step tool use
Be careful with
- bulk summarization or simple classification where cheaper models can pass evaluation
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first