DeepSeek AI Models (R1 and V3.2)

All the major DeepSeek models, including R1 and the V3.2 series, are released under the highly permissive MIT license, allowing for unrestricted commercial use. This has made them very popular among developers and startups. The pricing for API access reflects the models' efficiency. The standard DeepSeek-V3.2 model is priced at just $0.28 per million input tokens and $0.42 per million output tokens through DeepSeek's own API, with even lower costs for cached inputs. The sparse attention mechani