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DeepSeek API

The official DeepSeek API, providing reasoning and general-purpose model endpoints compatible with the OpenAI SDK.

API capabilities

· General-purpose chat
· Reasoning models
· OpenAI-compatible endpoints

Recommended use

· Reasoning tasks
· Prototyping for Chinese-language developers
· OpenAI-compatible migration

Important restrictions

· Models and pricing change with official announcements
· Cross-border network availability varies over time

Free tier

· The official pricing page provides the current billing basis; a fixed free allowance is Unknown and is not inferred from older articles.
· Free limits: Unknown; refer to the official account balance, rate limits and pricing page.
· Credit card: Unknown; refer to the current sign-up and top-up flow.
· Sign-up: Requires sign-up and creating an API key.

Benchmark observation

Current public measurement: status Online, latency 410 ms, success rate 100%. These values come directly from the existing platform data and are not duplicated in the content layer.

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