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Flat illustration on an orange background of one person carrying a large gold key to a safe while another points in alarm at a key left inside an open browser window

DeepSeek API: how to get a key, what it costs per 1M tokens, and the truth about "free"

The DeepSeek API is pay per token. You get a key from DeepSeek's own platform, and it only works once you add money; we found no free tier on DeepSeek's pages. Here are the real per-million-token prices, the off-peak rate most US users get by default, a same-model price check against Novita AI, and what is actually free.

Aliteq Team · Oct 29, 2026 · 11 min

The ChatGPT app icon displayed on a smartphone screen, representing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model lineup

openai just made GPT-5.6 80% cheaper — three weeks after it launched

Luna dropped from $6 to $1.20 per million output tokens overnight. this is what an actual price war looks like.

Aliteq Team · Aug 5, 2026 · 6 min

Not on a PC: thumbnail over our screenshot of DeepSeek's DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card on Hugging Face, with a card reading 4-bit release, Hugging Face, 510.3 GB

Can you run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash locally? Not on a PC: even its 4-bit release needs about 476 GB

No graphics card comes close. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a 763-billion-parameter download that needs a 4x H200 or 8x H100 server, a 512GB Mac Studio, or Unsloth's 1-bit build on 128GB+ of RAM. What each route costs, what Ollama offers, how it differs from V4 Flash, and when DeepSeek's API is cheaper, checked Nov 7, 2026.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · 18 min

Which DeepSeek fits your PC? Thumbnail with a line drawing of a graphics card and a card reading deepseek-r1:8b, Ollama download, 5.2 GB, read Nov 3, 2026

Which DeepSeek model can my PC run, and how do I install it?

Only the distilled DeepSeek-R1 models fit a home PC: the 8B on an 8GB card, the 14B on 12 to 16GB, the 32B on 24GB, the 70B on 48GB. DeepSeek's newest V4 models are 284B to 1.6T parameters, and the DeepSeek models Ollama lists as cloud-only don't run on your machine. Install steps, sizes and the one setting that trips up 24GB cards, checked Nov 3, 2026.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · 8 min