DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat API Pricing

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

100 long-document requests with 100,000 input and 2,000 output tokens each

Use DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat with LiteLLM

Call DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v2-lite-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: deepseek-v2-lite-chat
    litellm_params:
      model: fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v2-lite-chat
      api_key: os.environ/FIREWORKS_AI_API_KEY

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-v2-lite-chat",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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