deepseek-flash API pricing
DeepSeek charges $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens for deepseek-flash, and $0.006 per million cached input tokens. A typical request of 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.0009.
Prices updated October 28, 2026
Input / 1M tokens
$0.3
Output / 1M tokens
$1.2
Cached input / 1M tokens
$0.006
Typical request
$0.0009
deepseek-flash price per million tokens
| Token type | Standard |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.3 |
| Cached input | $0.006 |
| Output | $1.2 |
deepseek-flash supports a 1M-token context window, up to 393K output tokens, image input, tool calling and reasoning.
What deepseek-flash costs per request
| Request | 1 request | 1,000 requests | 1M requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message (300 in, 200 out) | $0.00033 | $0.33 | $330.00 |
| Typical request (1K in, 500 out) | $0.0009 | $0.90 | $900.00 |
| Long document summary (20K in, 1K out) | $0.0072 | $7.20 | $7,200.00 |
| Coding agent step (50K in, 2K out) | $0.0174 | $17.40 | $17,400.00 |
At standard rates. A token is about 4 characters of English text, so 1,000 tokens is roughly 750 words. DeepSeek counts tokens with its own tokenizer, so the same text can be a different number of tokens.
Models with a similar price
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Output / 1M | Typical request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| codestral-2508 | Mistral | $0.3 | $0.03 | $0.9 | $0.00075 |
| gpt-5.6-luna | OpenAI | $0.2 | $0.02 | $1.2 | $0.0008 |
| deepseek-v3 | DeepSeek | $0.27 | $0.07 | $1.1 | $0.00082 |
| gpt-5.4-nano | OpenAI | $0.2 | $0.02 | $1.25 | $0.000825 |
| deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017 | Mistral | $0.3 | $0.007 | $1.2 | $0.0009 |
| deepseek-v4-flash | DeepSeek | $0.3 | $0.006 | $1.2 | $0.0009 |
| gemini-3.1-flash-lite | Google Gemini | $0.25 | $0.025 | $1.5 | $0.001 |
| gpt-4.1-mini | OpenAI | $0.4 | $0.1 | $1.6 | $0.0012 |
Other DeepSeek models
- deepseek-coder $0.14 / $0.28
- deepseek-r1 $0.55 / $2.19
- deepseek-v3 $0.27 / $1.1
- deepseek-v3.2 $0.28 / $0.4
- deepseek-v4-flash $0.3 / $1.2
- deepseek-v4-pro $1.32 / $3.96
Source: DeepSeek pricing.