Q.How is pricing determined for the DeepSeek API?
A.Pricing depends on token usage, measured per million tokens. Different rates apply for standard times, discount periods, and cache hits or misses.
DeepSeek provides advanced AI foundation models and APIs for developers and businesses. These models support a wide range of use cases including chatbots, code generation, translation, writing, and mathematical problem solving. The platform allows easy integration via API keys and offers off-peak pricing discounts.
DeepSeek is an AI company founded in 2023 that develops general artificial intelligence foundation models and technologies. It offers open-source large-scale models like DeepSeek-LLM, DeepSeek-Coder, and DeepSeek-MoE, along with API access to integrate these models into various applications.
A.Pricing depends on token usage, measured per million tokens. Different rates apply for standard times, discount periods, and cache hits or misses.
A.A token is the smallest unit of text recognized by the model, such as a word, number, or punctuation mark.
A.The API gives access to models like deepseek-chat (DeepSeek-V3) and deepseek-reasoner (DeepSeek-R1).
A.Context Caching is a cost-saving feature that reduces input costs. Details can be found in the DeepSeek Context Caching news article.
A.Yes, off-peak pricing discounts are available daily from 16:30 to 00:30 UTC.