Our take
DeepSeek's offers are the cheap end of the market for high-volume work, but the provider trains on the prompts you send it. That makes the price the easy part and the data policy the decision.
Use it for bulk, non-confidential jobs where the cheapest Flash tier is the natural starting point, and move up its own ladder only where the work demands it. Skip it if your prompts carry personal, regulated or confidential material, or if you need an independent security attestation or a European endpoint confirmed before you commit.
- The cheapest of the five offers listed is the Flash tier, so high-volume work that is not sensitive costs least on that row.
- Its own offers run from that Flash tier up to V4 Pro, so you can start cheap and pay more only where the work needs it.
- The provider trains on prompts, so confidential, personal or regulated material should not go through these offers without an agreement we cannot verify in our data.
- An independent security attestation, a European endpoint and a zero-retention option are all unverified in our data, so a compliance requirement needs settling elsewhere first.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for DeepSeek yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign DeepSeek has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to DeepSeek through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 3 hours ago. For DeepSeek's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.