DeepSeek vs Novita AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: DeepSeek is cheaper on 1 of 6 shared models (input or output price), Novita AI on 2.
DeepSeek
Frontier-class reasoning and coding models at a fraction of Western lab prices, with off-peak discounts and open weights for self-hosting..
- Extreme price/performance
- Off-peak pricing windows
- Open weights available
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-28 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | DeepSeek in/out | Novita AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.270 / $1.10 | $0.890 / $0.890 | DeepSeek |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.280 / $0.400 | $0.269 / $0.400 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.440 / $1.32 | $0.140 / $0.280 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.440 / $1.32 | $0.440 / $1.32 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.550 / $2.19 | $4.00 / $4.00 | DeepSeek |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.32 / $3.96 | $1.60 / $3.20 | DeepSeek |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.