OCR model for extracting structured text from documents and screenshots
DeepSeek-OCR is offered by 3 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 2 of them. Its reference price is $0.20 per 1M input tokens and $0.70 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NovitaAI at $0.03 / $0.03 per 1M, about 6.7× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 8,192 tokens, with an output limit of 8,192 tokens. It supports structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow (China) deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR | Cloud | Free | — | — | 8,192 | 8,192 | ||
| NovitaAI | Gateway | $0.03 | $0.03 | — | — | 8,192 | 8,192 | |
| Clarifai deepseek-ai/deepseek-ocr/models/DeepSeek-OCR | Cloud | $0.20 | $0.70 | — | — | 8,192 | 8,192 |
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1 more channels offer $0 (SiliconFlow (China)); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.