Pricing
Pay-as-you-go credits. $1 in free credits on signup. No subscription, no expiry, no minimum.
Full retail, all the time. We don't pass through DeepSeek's promotional or off-peak discounts. Your bill is the same regardless of when you call — predictable, auditable, and immune to mid-month rate changes.
Flash
deepseek-v4-flash · Default. Fast, cheap, good enough for almost anything.
| Token type | Per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input (uncached) | $0.35 |
| Input (cached) | $0.0070 |
| Output | $0.70 |
Pro
deepseek-v4-pro · Heavier reasoning. ~12× the output cost — switch with /pro in the CLI.
| Token type | Per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input (uncached) | $4.35 |
| Input (cached) | $0.04 |
| Output | $8.70 |
Fred charges a 2.5× margin over DeepSeek's published rates. Even with the margin, Fred remains ~10× cheaper per session than Anthropic Sonnet or OpenAI direct on equivalent token loads — see the estimator below.
Estimate your monthly cost
Drag the sliders. Numbers come from the same lib/pricing.ts the proxy bills against — no fudge factor.
Input tokens / turn50K
Output tokens / turn10K
Turns per day20
Cached input40%
Fred / month
$10.58
Claude Sonnet 4 / month
$147.60
GPT-4o / month
$120.00
Computed as turn-cost × turns/day × 30 days, using each provider's published per-token rate. Cache discount applied to input only.