Tool profile
Developer-focused model provider for chat, reasoning, and coding workloads, with an emphasis on API use.
Model inference
DeepSeek is a model provider aimed at builders working directly at the API layer. Its appeal is mostly economic and technical: low-cost inference, reasoning-oriented models, and coding-relevant workloads for teams that are comfortable integrating models into their own systems.
That means DeepSeek should be evaluated like model infrastructure, not like a polished end-user SaaS app. The important questions are price-performance, latency, reliability, and how well the models behave on your own tasks.
Quick fit
Editorial take
DeepSeek is interesting because the buying decision is mostly about model economics and behavior. If the team needs mature enterprise controls or a polished product layer, it may not be the right choice; if the team wants inexpensive API access for reasoning-heavy workloads, it becomes much more relevant.
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Pricing snapshot
DeepSeek uses usage-based pricing. The current official page lists DeepSeek Chat around $0.028 per 1M cache-hit input tokens, $0.28 per 1M cache-miss input tokens, and $0.42 per 1M output tokens.
AgentOps
Free planAgent observability
Observability for AI agents with tracing, debugging, session visibility, and production monitoring.
Closer to agent observability than to model hosting or prompt tooling
