DeepSeek - Askr

DeepSeek is an open-weight family that punches well above its price, especially for reasoning and code. A strong default when you want capable output without paying frontier prices.

Best for

High-volume workloads where cost matters.
Reasoning and code at a low price point.
Self-serve experimentation and prototyping.


Modality	Chat & code (text in, text out)
Example model id	`deepseek-v3`
Endpoint	`POST /chat/completions`

Example

curl https://api.heyaskr.ai/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ASKR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-v3",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to debounce calls."}
    ]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.heyaskr.ai", api_key="ASKR_API_KEY")

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-v3",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to debounce calls."},
    ],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing

Priced per token, input and output separately. As a rough guide, expect around $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, among the lowest-cost capable models on Askr.

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DeepSeek on Askr: model card and pricing

The model id and prices above are examples. Confirm the exact id and current price against the live /v1/models list before you rely on them.

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