DeepSeek chat model for instruction following, coding, and analysis
DeepSeek Chat is offered by 7 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 6 of them. Its reference price is $0.257 per 1M input tokens and $1.03 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NanoGPT at $0.10 / $0.425 per 1M, about 2.8× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 163,840 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 128,000 to 1,000,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-09.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.43 | $0.05 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.30 | $0.02 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 384,000 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | — | 131,072 ⚠ | — | |
| ZenMux | Gateway | $0.28 | $0.42 | $0.03 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | deprecated |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.26 | $1.03 | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 16,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.26 | $1.03 | — | — | 163,840 | 16,000 | |
| AnyAPI | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 384,000 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 70.2 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.