Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) vs DeepSeek-V3 (Chat): API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) is 90.2% cheaper ($129.75/mo vs $1323.75/mo), while DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) leads in token generation speed (150 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) (Fireworks AI) DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) (DeepSeek API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $3.000 $0.270 DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $1.500 $0.070 DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $8.00 $1.10 DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1282 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $1323.75 / mo $129.75 / mo DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) (-90.2%)
Context Window 160,000 tokens 64,000 tokens DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Output Speed (Throughput) 150 tokens/sec 60 tokens/sec DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Batch API Discount -50% (Fireworks AI) -50% (DeepSeek API) Fireworks AI
Primary Workload Fit US/EU compliance enterprises needing DeepSeek R1 reasoning at 3x speed High-intelligence general tasks & translation where prompt caching saves 75%+ Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) → Try DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) → Open Full Simulator