Top 10 Cheapest Providers for DeepSeek V3.2 in 2026

DeepSeek V3.2 has quickly become one of the most popular open-weight models in production. It replaced both V3 and R1 with a unified model that handles chat and reasoning at a single price point, ships a 163K context window, and scored gold on the 2025 IMO and IOI benchmarks — all for under $0.50 per million tokens. But where you access V3.2 matters just as much as the model itself. Depending on the provider, you could pay anywhere from $0.18/M to $0.57/M for input tokens. Over millions of daily requests, that difference adds up fast. We pulled pricing from every major provider and ranked them so you don't have to. The Ranking Rank Provider Input (per 1M) Output (per 1M) Cached Input Notes 1 LLM Gateway $0.182 $0.28 $0.036 Auto-routed via Canopywave, 30% discount applied 2 GMI $0.20 $0.32 — Lowest blended price on Artificial Analysis 3 LLM Gateway (Alibaba cn-beijing) $0.23 $0.345 $0.046 20% Alibaba Cloud discount applied 4 OpenRouter $0.26 $0.38 — Multi-provider routing, free tier ava