DeepSeek
China's open-weight reasoning model with shockingly low API costs.
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Overview
DeepSeek's chat product leverages their R1 reasoning model and V3 family. Open weights, MIT-licensed, with API pricing roughly 1/30th of US frontier labs.
Pros
- +Frontier-level reasoning at fraction of cost
- +Open weights
- +MIT license
Cons
- −Data routes through China
- −English UX rough
- −Censorship on some topics
Pricing
Free chat
FreeAPI pay-as-you-go
Custom$0.27/M input tokens
Key Features
Reasoning (R1)Open weightsCheapest APICodingMath
Best For
budget API usersself-hostingmath/coding
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