DeepSeek
AI assistant and developer platform from DeepSeek with public API access.
Core record
Status: Public
Access: Web / App / API
API status: Yes
Openness: Mixed
Modalities: Text, code and experimental vision
Best suited for
Reasoning, coding and API-based language-model workflows.
Limitations
Model identifiers, pricing and experimental modalities are version-sensitive.
API / auth
Interface: OpenAI-compatible chat/completions and Anthropic-compatible API formats
Base URL: https://api.deepseek.com
Authentication: HTTP Bearer API key
Compatibility: OpenAI SDK compatible; Anthropic-compatible format is also documented.
Rate limits: Account/model dependent.
Deployment
Models / versions
| Model | Context | Max output | Modalities | License | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro deepseek-v4-pro | 1M tokens | Pending | text | Pending | current |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek-v4-flash | 1M tokens | Pending | text | Pending | current |
Pricing snapshots
| SKU / model | Unit | Input | Output | Flat | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro cache-miss | USD per 1M tokens | 0.435 | 0.87 | — | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash cache-miss | USD per 1M tokens | 0.14 | 0.28 | — |
Integrations
Regions
Availability depends on DeepSeek platform terms and supported jurisdictions.
Governance / privacy
Pricing and model IDs are version-sensitive and should be monitored.
File and image limits differ by API usage mode.
Benchmarks
Pending methodology-aware benchmark audit unless separately documented. Vendor and independent benchmark results are kept distinct.