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DeepSeek API
Low-cost API for DeepSeek's models (OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible) plus standalone Search and Fetch APIs that give agents live web content.
💲 deepseek-flash: $0.30/M input (cache miss) and $1.20/M output at peak, half that off-peak. Search and Fetch: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests each. Source: api-docs.deepseek.com (checked Nov 2, 2026).
Pros & cons
👍 Pros
- Very cheap per token, with off-peak discounts
- Drop-in OpenAI and Anthropic API formats (works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode)
- 1M-token context and built-in web search/fetch for agents
👎 Cons
- Peak-hour pricing doubles the cost
- Search/fetch calls inside coding agents start billing Nov 1, 2026
Latest release
Super-agent prototype (open source)
DeepSeek's Harness team open-sourced dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed research prototype of an always-on coding agent for one GitHub repo (optionally Feishu): a Router hands requests to parallel Worker sessions that reply in the original thread, for example with a pull request. DeepSeek says it's not an official product or production-ready. Source ↗
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