Anchor (verify): DeepSeek API is priced per million tokens at some of the lowest published rates among frontier-adjacent models, with additional off-peak and cache-hit discounts historically. Exact numbers change — check the official page.

Where it shines

• High-volume batch pipelines (summarization, extraction, classification)
• Internal tooling where latency > frontier reasoning

Where it doesn't

• Hardest agentic coding tasks where top models still win

Official: api-docs.deepseek.com

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