merge-gateway/deepseek/deepseek-r1 · family deepseek-thinking · price provider-declared (via models.dev), USD per 1M tokens. Capabilities: reasoningtext.
merge-gateway)“DeepSeek R1” is offered by 6 providers — cheapest-effective first. NanoGPT is the cheapest at $0.73 blended.
| Provider | Input | Output | Blended | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | $0.4 | $1.7 | $0.73 | 128k |
| D.Run (China) | $0.55 | $2.2 | $0.96 | 131k |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.574 | $2.294 | $1.00 | 131k |
| Merge Gateway (this) | $1.35 | $5.4 | $2.36 | 164k |
| IO.NET | $2 | $8.75 | $3.69 | 128k |
| Abacus | $3 | $7 | $4.00 | 128k |
jishie indexes & prices models; it does not proxy inference. Most providers are OpenAI-compatible — point base_url at Merge Gateway and pass this model id:
curl $BASE_URL/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"deepseek/deepseek-r1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'
Route programmatically with MCP find_model / get_model, or fetch this record free (no wallet):