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DeepSeek Reasoner token cost

DeepSeek · context 128,000 tokens · tokenizer Approx

When to use DeepSeek Reasoner

DeepSeek reasoning endpoint when you want chain-of-thought style work at DeepSeek rates. Watch output tokens: reasoning traces can dominate the bill.

Pricing

Input
$0.550/1M
Output
$2.19/1M
Cached input
$0.140/1M
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Reasoning tokens may be billed with output; confirm on DeepSeek docs.

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