R1 0528 API Pricing

DeepSeek · Mid-tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-05. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.

Cost per request by business use case

List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).

Use caseTokens (in/out)Cost/req (list)Cost/req (optimized)Monthly @100K req
Support Ticket1,500 / 500$0.0018$0.0017$169
Knowledge Q&A2,000 / 800$0.0027$0.0025$251
Meeting Summary10,000 / 1,200$0.0076$0.0074$743
Marketing Content2,500 / 1,800$0.0051$0.0050$505
Coding Task3,000 / 2,000$0.0058$0.0056$558
Invoice Processing1,500 / 600$0.0020$0.0020$197
Call Summary2,000 / 700$0.0025$0.0025$247
Agent Workflow6,000 / 3,000$0.0095$0.0088$882

R1 0528 pricing by host

A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 4 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.

HostInput $/1MOutput $/1M
DeepInfra (the price shown above) — fp4$0.50$2.15
SiliconFlow (the price shown above) — fp8$0.50$2.18
StreamLake$0.57$2.29
Novita — fp8$0.70$2.50

Common questions about R1 0528 pricing

How much does R1 0528 cost?
R1 0528 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.15 per million output tokens on the API.
Does R1 0528 offer batch or cached pricing?
Prompt-cache reads cost $0.35/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
What would R1 0528 cost per month?
For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, R1 0528 costs about $183 at list prices.

These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.

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