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DeepSeek V3.1 pricing

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$0.25 / $0.95per 1M tokens in / out
#119on OpenRouter by tokens · 48.7B / week

Price sheetper 1M tokens

Input$0.25DeepInfra
Output$0.95
Context · max output128K · 33Ktokens

Where to buy6 providers · per 1M tokens

ProviderInputOutputContext
DeepInfra$0.25$0.95—
SiliconFlow$0.27$1—
Featherless$0.28$1—
CoreWeave$0.55$1.65—
AWS Bedrock$0.58$1.68—
SambaNova$0.65$1.50—

In DeepSeek's line-upper 1M in / out

DeepSeek OCR$0.03 / $0.10−89%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B$0.20 / $0.32−46%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B$0.27 / $0.27−36%
DeepSeek V3.1$0.25 / $0.95this model
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.30 / $1.20+24%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B$0.43 / $1.12+42%
R1 0528$0.39 / $1.63+64%
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Cheaper for the same workvs DeepSeek V3.1

Claude Haiku 5.5 max-53%score ×3.2$0.21
MiniMax M3.1 Flash thinking-38%score ×3.1$0.22
GLM 5.3 Flash maxOpen-44%score ×3$0.28
Qwen3.8 Flash thinkingOpen-46%score ×2.9$0.37
GPT-6 Luna max-53%score ×2.8$0.068

Pricing questions

How much does DeepSeek V3.1 cost?›

$0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.95 per 1M output tokens.

Is DeepSeek V3.1 free to use?›

There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.

Is DeepSeek V3.1 cheaper than DeepSeek V3?›

No: $0.25 / $0.95 against $0.28 / $0.42, 35% more per token.

What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek V3.1?›

Claude Haiku 5.5 at max effort costs -53% per task with a score ×3.2 on Humanity's Last Exam.