DeepSeek Pricing
Every DeepSeek plan with its monthly and annual price, what it costs for common team sizes, and a calculator to estimate your own monthly cost before you buy.
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Plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing (per month) | Per user or flat | Users | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web and app chat | Free | Free | — | No limit listed | Yes |
| API pay-as-you-go | Contact sales | Contact sales | — | No limit listed | No |
Prices last updated November 2026.
What each DeepSeek plan includes
Web and app chat
- Mobile app
- Reasoning (thinking) mode
- Web chat at chat.deepseek.com
API pay-as-you-go
- 1M-token context window
- Up to 384K output tokens
- Usage-based billing per 1M tokens
- Off-peak rates are 50% of peak rates
- Concurrency limit of 2,500 on Flash and 500 on Pro
What DeepSeek costs by team size
| Team size | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 25 users | 50 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | FreeWeb and app chat | FreeWeb and app chat | FreeWeb and app chat | FreeWeb and app chat | FreeWeb and app chat |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges.
Usage pricing
| Metric | Plan | Included per month | Price after that |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-flash input, cache hit (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $0.006 per 1M tokens |
| deepseek-flash input, cache miss (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $0.30 per 1M tokens |
| deepseek-flash output (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $1.20 per 1M tokens |
| deepseek-v4-pro input, cache hit (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $0.044 per 1M tokens |
| deepseek-v4-pro input, cache miss (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $1.32 per 1M tokens |
| deepseek-v4-pro output (peak) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $3.96 per 1M tokens |
| Speech recognition (discounted) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $0.058 per hour of audio |
| Text-to-speech (discounted) | API pay-as-you-go | None | $0.225 per 10,000 characters |
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Cost breakdown
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DeepSeek pricing FAQs
Peak hours are 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, excluding Chinese public holidays. Outside those hours, rates are half the peak price.
Yes, DeepSeek has a free plan: Web and app chat.
DeepSeek's Web and app chat plan includes Mobile app, Reasoning (thinking) mode and Web chat at chat.deepseek.com.
DeepSeek is free for 10 users on its Web and app chat plan.
Yes. DeepSeek charges by usage for deepseek-flash input, cache hit (peak), deepseek-flash input, cache miss (peak), deepseek-flash output (peak) and 5 more, past what the plan includes.