DeepSeek API relay services 40 in total

DeepSeek has improved on price-performance faster than any other family in recent years. It is already usable for Chinese-language work and code generation, at an order of magnitude below an overseas model of the same tier — which is why it spread so quickly through the relay ecosystem.

One distinction worth drawing here is direct-from-vendor versus reselling. A direct service connects to DeepSeek's own open platform, which means a short path and prices close to the official ones. A reseller adds another layer — possibly cheaper, but with less predictable stability and a murkier data path. A useful tell: if an error message mentions some other service's name, traffic is being forwarded through more than one layer.

If corporate data is involved, the compliance of the data path matters too. A request through a relay means the content passes through a third party, so for sensitive workloads confirm the service's data-handling terms — or go directly to the official platform, or to a gateway you host yourself.

Note also the muddle in version naming. The same generation may go by different names on different services, so compare by capability tier rather than exact model name — otherwise the naming differences will simply confuse the comparison.

• Most stable：Highest current uptime. Where samples are thin we show the public-dataset baseline instead, and the detail page states the source.
• Fastest：Home-page response time from the most recent probe. A single measurement is noisy, so treat it as a range rather than an absolute.
• Broadest model coverage：This uses the model count our endpoint probe actually detected, not the support list the service advertises — the two are measured differently, and the advertised figure is usually the more optimistic one.

How big is DeepSeek's price advantage?

Within the same tier, typically an order of magnitude below an overseas model — the main reason to choose it. But the tiers have to line up: comparing a flagship against a lightweight tells you nothing. Our official price list carries reference prices per family, so find your tier by task type first, then compare across.

Is it safe to use Chinese models through a relay?

The request goes through the relay, so the content is visible to a third party. Where trade secrets or personal data are involved, if the vendor's official platform or a self-hosted gateway can do the job, do not route it through a third-party relay; if you do use one, confirm its data-handling and retention terms first.

Are Chinese models good enough for coding tasks?

For everyday completion, refactoring and unit-test generation, usually yes. For complex architecture design and long debugging chains, flagship overseas models still lead. Many teams tier it: routine work on Chinese models, hard problems switched to a flagship.

The same model has different names on different services — how do I know it is the same one?

Go by the vendor's official name; relay aliases are usually invented locally. Request /v1/models to see the real ids and compare them against the vendor's documentation. Our detail pages show the model identifiers our probe found, which you can use for reference.