DeepSeek API pricing details and 25 free alternatives in AI / ML. Catalogue date August 2026.
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. How we use this.
Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing, where it says: “We will bill based on the total number of input and output tokens by the model” How we use this.
Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance… The only record that would rate DeepSeek API is a change we could not check against an archived copy of DeepSeek API's page, so we are not publishing a rating for it.
Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak. DeepSeek-V4-Pro (deepseek-v4-pro): $1.32/M input, $3.96/M output at peak. Cache-hit input is $0.006/M on Flash and $0.044/M on Pro. Off-peak rates are half; peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays. 1M context, up to 384K output. China-based.
We read that on 2026-09-21 from https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names DeepSeek API as "deepseek api" and states amounts, none of which we matched to the terms we publish. A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
How DeepSeek API compares against every one of the 25 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | not_a_free_offer |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Hugging Face | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
Left out of this list: Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Google Colab (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (we have not classified this record), Zep (we have not classified this record), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (we have not classified this record), Cognee (we have not classified this record), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), Jina AI (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in AI / ML, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
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