Third-party hosting (observed) — tracked routes and prices
1 access routes across credits / prepaid. Cheapest verified per-token route: Third-party hosting (observed, not rowed) at $2.17/M blended. 0 routes verified directly on official pages this pass, 0 via official snapshot, and 1 could not be verified and are labeled UNCERTAIN rather than priced from memory. Snapshot 2026-09-07 (rows accessed 2026-09-07). Rankings live on the cost leaderboard.
| Category | Route | Price (list) | Notes and caveats | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credits / prepaid | Third-party hosting (observed, not rowed)deepinfra--credits--observed | DeepInfra seen at $1.74/$3.48 for deepseek-v4-pro in search results | Third-party figure from search results, unverified against its own page.· Unverified third-party figure | srcUNCERTAIN |
Third-party hosting (observed, not rowed)
DeepInfra seen at $1.74/$3.48 for deepseek-v4-pro in search results
Credits / prepaid · UNCERTAIN · Unverified third-party figure
Route economics at a glance
Assembled from the verified rows above — no new data. Each figure links its official source and carries the date it was read.
| Free / promo routes | 0 | None sold by Third-party hosting (observed) directly. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| API per-token range (blended) | $2.17–$2.17/M | Across 1 priced API route; blended = (3 x input + output) / 4 — see methodology. | |
| Batch / off-peak discounts | 0 | None published on tracked routes. | |
| Published overage terms | 0 of 1 routes | Checked — no per-unit figure published on tracked routes. | |
Cited intelligence scores
Quoted from the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, accessed 2026-09-07 — not measured by us. Each value links its exact AA source row. Artificial Analysis scores every reasoning-effort variant separately; we quote the named variant shown. An asterisk marks scores AA itself flags as estimates.
Sources & methods
Snapshot 2026-09-07 (per-datum access dates at right; a few rows rest on dated official snapshots — see notes). Every price above links its official source in the routes table; every score above links its AA source row. Below, each datum's source and access date, in full. Method: methodology.
| Datum | Source | Accessed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party hosting (observed, not rowed)Credits / prepaid · DeepInfra seen at $1.74/$3.48 for deepseek-v4-pro in search results | deepinfra.com | 2026-09-07 | UNCERTAIN |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) — II v4.3: 36Quoted score, not measured by us | artificialanalysis.ai | 2026-09-07 | CITED |