deepseek-r2 pricing
deepseek-r2 is priced at $0.55 per 1M input tokens and $2.20 per 1M output tokens, with roughly 300 ms to first token and about 45 tokens/sec output throughput.
Price per 1M tokens
Input $0.55 · Output $2.20 · Output/input ratio 4.0x.
- 1M input + 1M output tokens: $2.75
- 10M input + 2M output tokens/month: $9.90
- 100M input + 20M output tokens/month: $99.00
Cheaper alternatives to deepseek-r2
Same workload, lower output price. Validate quality before switching.
- gpt-4.1-mini — $2.00/1M output (9% cheaper)
- mistral-medium-3 — $2.00/1M output (9% cheaper)
- gpt-4o-mini — $1.50/1M output (32% cheaper)
- glm-5.2 — $1.40/1M output (36% cheaper)
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