deepseek/deepseek-chat vs deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 is cheaper: $7.50 a month at Novita AI, against $102.91 for deepseek/deepseek-chat at OpenRouter — 13.7× the cost.
Cheapest on each
deepseek/deepseek-chat
$102.91/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.2574 in, $1.0287 out per million
deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2
$7.50/mo
cheapest, at Novita AI — $0.03 in, $0.03 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | deepseek/deepseek-chat | deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 164K | ○ no answer |
| Accepts | Aa | ○ no answer |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.2574 / M | $0.03 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | deepseek/deepseek-chat /mo | deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $102.912026-10-27 | ○ no answer |
| Novita AI | ○ no answer | $7.502026-10-22 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.