DeepSeek
Frontier-adjacent models at a small fraction of Western prices
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DeepSeek brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What DeepSeek is
DeepSeek reset the category's price floor and has kept cutting since. The V3 line is released under MIT, so the same model you call over the API can be run on your own hardware or through a Western host. The first-party API is the cheapest serious option on this page; its governance terms are also the most permissive, which is the reason to route around it for sensitive workloads.
Recent changes
- 2025-09-29DeepSeek V3.2 cuts API prices by more than half
Sparse attention in V3.2-Exp brought long-context serving costs down and DeepSeek passed it straight through, landing input around $0.28/M and output around $0.42/M. Every budget provider on this page re-priced within the quarter.