> DeepSeek Web
DeepSeek offers a publicly accessible chat product plus a separately metered API platform. The official API pricing page lists deepseek-flash at $0.15 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak, and $0.30 and $1.20 at peak, with cache hits at $0.003 to $0.006; deepseek-v4-pro is $0.66 to $1.32 input and $1.98 to $3.96 output. Off-peak rates are exactly half of peak, and peak hours are defined as 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday. Both models offer a 1M-token context with up to 384K maximum output.
Paste your userToken from chat.deepseek.com — DevTools → Application → Local Storage → userToken
// pros
- The web and app chat is offered publicly from the official homepage with no price, plan or subscription attached.
- API pricing is published per million tokens for both current models, with off-peak rates documented as exactly half of peak.
- Peak windows are defined precisely as 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, so off-peak scheduling is a documented cost lever.
- deepseek-flash is inexpensive at $0.15 per million cache-miss input tokens off-peak and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak.
- Both models support a 1M-token context with up to 384K output, and the API exposes both OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.
// cons
- No numeric free allowance is published for the web app or the API; the pricing page refers only to a topped-up balance or a granted balance.
- Charges are deducted from granted balance first, but the page does not explain how granted balance is obtained, so no free-quota programme is documented.
- DeepSeek states that it reserves the right to adjust prices, so the off-peak halving should not be treated as permanent.
- Concurrency is capped at 2,500 for deepseek-flash and 500 for deepseek-v4-pro, which limits burst throughput on a single account.
Use the free web chat for interactive work and the API only where programmatic access is required, scheduling flexible jobs into the documented off-peak window to halve token costs.
written by Mike Fleming, Uprouter editorial · verified against official sources September 16, 2026
No free tier
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$ Does DeepSeek Web have a free tier?
No. DeepSeek Web does not offer a meaningful free tier — entry requires payment (pay-as-you-go or a plan). We mark this explicitly rather than showing a misleading zero.
$ How much does DeepSeek Web cost per 1M tokens?
DeepSeek Web does not publish simple per-1M-token pricing (it may bill per request, per output, or via a subscription plan). Check their official pricing page for exact figures.
$ Is DeepSeek Web safe to use?
Uprouter rates DeepSeek Web as unrated. Low-to-medium risk. The consumer chat carries no published cost, so there is no billing exposure there; the API is metered with clear off-peak rules, but prices can be adjusted unilaterally and no free API credit is documented. The model line-up is also in motion - the official blog states that V4-Flash and V4-Flash-Vision-Exp are retired and that legacy model names now route to V4.1-Flash - so pinning an exact model name requires care. Risk ratings are editorial, evidence-based, and never influenced by affiliate relationships.
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live_status
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risk_&_confidence
Low-to-medium risk. The consumer chat carries no published cost, so there is no billing exposure there; the API is metered with clear off-peak rules, but prices can be adjusted unilaterally and no free API credit is documented. The model line-up is also in motion - the official blog states that V4-Flash and V4-Flash-Vision-Exp are retired and that legacy model names now route to V4.1-Flash - so pinning an exact model name requires care.
Confidence reflects how much verifiable evidence (official docs, probe history, community reports) backs this entry. Risk is our editorial assessment of operator reliability and terms — not financial advice.
code_snippets
# DeepSeek Web's own API — get a key from their dashboard
curl https://chat.deepseek.com/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer THEIR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "MODEL_NAME",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
}'Direct to the provider — Uprouter receives nothing; verify their current pricing before purchasing.
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