DeepSeek-OCR: API pricing, providers and specs
DeepSeek-OCR is a text model by DeepSeek. 4 providers serve it, from $0.02 to $1.20 /1M; the lowest price is at AIHubMix.
How DeepSeek-OCR compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.02 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 99% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 8K-token context window is larger than 0% of them (median 262K), about 10 pages of text.
- 4 providers serve it; 60% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the MIT license: commercial use allowed.
DeepSeek-OCR prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AIHubMix | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | 8K |
| Atlas Cloud | $0.04/1M | $0.08/1M | — | — |
| APIMart | $0.046/1M | $0.205/1M | — | — |
 Vertex | $0.30/1M | $1.20/1M | — | — |
- AIHubMix$0.02
- Atlas Cloud$0.08
- APIMart$0.205
- Vertex$1.20
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- DeepSeek
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 8K≈ 10 pages of text
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- Vision
- Released
- Oct 17, 2025
- License
- MITcommercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 3.3B
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The lowest price for DeepSeek-OCR is $0.02 /1M, at AIHubMix.
AIHubMix, at $0.02 /1M. 4 providers serve DeepSeek-OCR; the table above lists every one with its price.
DeepSeek-OCR reads up to 8K tokens per request.
Yes. DeepSeek-OCR's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the MIT license.
About 3.3B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
4 API providers serve DeepSeek-OCR. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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