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DeepSeek API
High-performance frontier model API at a fraction of the cost
by deepseekApp Infrastructure
About
DeepSeek's API provides access to DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 — frontier models matching GPT-4 performance on benchmarks at dramatically lower per-token costs. Its reasoning model (R1) supports extended chain-of-thought for complex coding and math tasks.
Choose DeepSeek API when…
- •need frontier-level reasoning at the lowest cost per token
- •running high-volume inference where cost is the primary constraint
- •want strong coding and math reasoning at low cost
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