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DeepSeek Alternatives

Cost-effective inference API with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and open-weight models

DeepSeek offers an inference API for its DeepSeek-V3 and reasoning models with OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Known for strong performance at significantly lower cost than competitors.

Explore 70 alternatives to DeepSeek across 1 category. Updated September 2026.

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NanoGPT

One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices

Free Trial

Pay per prompt, from $0.10

Lyceum

EU-hosted inference cloud for open-source models, OpenAI-compatible

From $0.06/1M tokens

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Top DeepSeek alternatives at a glance

OpenAI. API access to GPT, o-series reasoning, DALL-E, and Whisper models
Mistral. Use models in a few clicks with our platform. Download our open models for deep access.
Anthropic Claude. Claude API for building AI applications with Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models
Google Gemini API. Google's API for Gemini models with text, image, video, and audio capabilities
Lepton. GPU compute marketplace from NVIDIA (formerly Lepton AI). Connects developers to 20+ cloud providers through one inte...

Compare DeepSeek with its alternatives

Product	Pricing Model	Free Tier	Open Source	Hosting	HQ
DeepSeek	Pay-per-use	✓	✓ MIT	Cloud	🇨🇳 China
OpenAI	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Mistral	Freemium	—	✓ APACHE2	Cloud + Self-hosted	🇫🇷 France
Anthropic Claude	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Google Gemini API	Freemium	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Lepton	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Cerebras	Freemium	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
Nebius	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇳🇱 Netherlands
LibertAI	Freemium	—	—	Cloud	🇫🇷 France
Berget AI	Freemium	✓	—	Cloud	🇸🇪 Sweden
LLMWise	Freemium	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
NanoGPT	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	—
DeepInfra	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States
LLM Tech	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇵🇱 Poland
Lyceum	Pay-per-use	—	—	Cloud	🇩🇪 Germany
Novita AI	Pay-per-use	✓	—	Cloud	🇺🇸 United States

🤖 Inference APIs

OpenAI

API access to GPT, o-series reasoning, DALL-E, and Whisper models

Free Trial

Mistral

Use models in a few clicks with our platform. Download our open models for deep access.

Open Source

Anthropic Claude

Claude API for building AI applications with Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models

Free Trial

Google Gemini API

Google's API for Gemini models with text, image, video, and audio capabilities

Free Trial

Lepton

GPU compute marketplace from NVIDIA (formerly Lepton AI). Connects developers to 20+ cloud providers through one inte...

Cerebras

Ultra-fast inference on custom wafer-scale hardware with OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

Nebius

Full-stack AI cloud with GPU infrastructure for training and inference

Free Trial

LibertAI

Decentralized, privacy-first inference API running open-source LLMs in trusted execution environments

Berget AI

EU-sovereign AI inference platform with OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

LLMWise

Multi-LLM API orchestration platform for comparing and blending AI models

Free Trial

NanoGPT

One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices

Featured Free Trial

DeepInfra

Run the top AI models using a simple API, pay per use. Low cost, scalable and production ready infrastructure.

Free Trial

LLM Tech

EU inference provider serving Qwen3.8-27B from dedicated Helsinki GPUs it rents and operates itself, with zero data r...

Free Trial

Lyceum

EU-hosted inference cloud for open-source models, OpenAI-compatible

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Novita AI

APIs, Serverless and GPU Instance In One AI Cloud

Free Trial

OpenRouter

Unified API for 400+ AI models across 60+ providers, OpenAI SDK-compatible, pay-as-you-go

Free Trial

Groq

LPU-powered inference API for LLMs, speech, and vision models with usage-based pricing

Free Trial

CheapestInference

Flat-rate unlimited inference on open-weight models, sold in daily 8-hour windows

Together AI

The fastest cloud platform for building and running generative AI.

Solheim AI

Private EU-hosted LLM instances billed at a flat monthly fee rather than per token

Akumi

EU-hosted OpenAI-compatible inference API with data residency, PII pseudonymization and per-request audit trails

HostYourAI

EU-hosted inference router with OpenAI and Anthropic drop-in compatibility, plus dedicated vLLM instances

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

Hosted API access to Qwen and third-party models across six global regions

Free Trial

GPU Flow

OpenAI-compatible inference, GPU sandboxes and dedicated B200s, hosted in Spain and billed in euros

Free Trial

TokensMind

Unified OpenAI-compatible API gateway to 100+ models across providers

Free Trial

GreenPT

French inference API for open-weight models, hosted on Scaleway with embeddings, reranking and speech

Free Trial

Opper

EU-hosted AI gateway serving 300+ models through one OpenAI-compatible API

Free Trial

Kontinent

EU-resident OpenAI-compatible API that routes across European model providers, plus post-training on your data

regolo

OpenAI-compatible inference API run on Italian infrastructure with zero data retention

Free Trial

WAYSCloud

Norwegian cloud platform with an LLM inference API running open-weight models in Norway

IONOS AI Model Hub

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight LLMs and image models, hosted in IONOS EU data centers

Runware

Unified API for image, video, audio and 3D generation running on custom inference hardware

Free Trial

Melious AI

European inference API serving 60+ open-weight models on OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints

Fast Pivot

Unified OpenAI-compatible API for routing across 300+ models from 50+ providers

SimpleLLM

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, hosted only in EU data centres

Free Trial

Aurora Inference

OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, with in-region deployment on reserved capacity

Geodd

Managed AI inference endpoints and GPU infrastructure with OpenAI-compatible API

CodingPlanX

Unified AI API gateway providing access to 600+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and more

Free Trial

Fireworks AI

The production AI platform built for developers.

FerryAPI

OpenAI-compatible API gateway with prepaid balance and usage billing

Tokenware

Unified OpenAI-compatible API to 200+ models with smart routing and failover

Free Trial

SambaNova

Custom AI chip inference platform with purpose-built hardware for high-throughput LLM serving

Free Trial

LLMBase

EU-hosted inference API with 30+ open-source models, OpenAI-compatible, GDPR-compliant

OurToken

Unified OpenAI-compatible API gateway that routes requests across multiple LLM providers

SiliconFlow

OpenAI-compatible API serving 200+ open-source LLM and multimodal models

Free Trial

Synexa

Simple, fast, and stable. Deploy AI models with just one line of code.

IonRouter

High-throughput inference API with OpenAI-compatible access to open-source models at half market rate

Free Trial

Infercom

European sovereign AI inference with OpenAI-compatible APIs hosted in EU datacenters

Free Trial

Cohere

Cohere’s world-class LLMs help enterprises build powerful, secure applications that search, understand meaning and co...

Free Trial

Amazon Bedrock

Managed API access to foundation models on AWS with built-in fine-tuning and agent tooling

Free Trial

TensorX

EU-sovereign inference API with 42+ open-source models and zero data retention

Cloudflare Workers AI

Run AI models at the edge on Cloudflare's global network with serverless inference

Free Trial

EUrouter

European AI gateway that routes to 100+ models with EU data residency

Free Trial

OctoAI

OctoAI delivers production-grade GenAI solutions running on the most efficient compute, empowering builders to launch...

Free Trial

Anyscale

Fast, cost-efficient, serverless APIs for LLM Serving and Fine Tuning

Nscale

European AI hyperscaler with serverless inference and GPU cloud

Free Trial

Scaleway

European serverless AI inference APIs, 100% hosted in Europe

Free Trial

Cortecs AI

European AI inference gateway with smart routing across EU providers

Free Trial

Replicate

Run and fine-tune open-source models. Deploy custom models at scale. All with one line of code.

Baseten

AI inference platform for deploying and serving ML models with autoscaling and optimized infrastructure

Free Trial

Vynaris

OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes each request to a smaller model and returns a cost receipt

evroc

European-sovereign cloud and inference APIs running open-source models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in EU data centers

AiQu

Swedish GPU infrastructure and LLM hosting platform with API-first deployment, no Kubernetes required

Free Trial

Infer by Flow7

Responses API gateway for coding agents, with a public model catalog and per-request spend ceilings

ARK Labs

Sovereign AI inference infrastructure for regulated EU environments, with heterogeneous GPU support

Free Trial

General Compute

ASIC-powered inference cloud built for AI agents, OpenAI-compatible API

fal

Build the next generation of creativity with fal. Lightning fast inference.

Free Trial

Verda

European GPU cloud with on-demand instances and serverless inference

AKI.IO

European AI API for open-source models on EU infrastructure

Free Trial

OVHcloud AI

European cloud provider with AI inference, training, and deployment services

Free Trial

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