DeepSeek OCR-2

A roughly 3B MoE vision-language model (570M active) for document understanding, with weights under Apache 2.0.

Params: 3B, 0.57B active
Context: 8K tokens
Released: Jan 2026
License: Apache 2.0

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Hosted API price

Cheapest via Novita · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.03 /1M
Output: $0.03 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving DeepSeek OCR-2, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving DeepSeek OCR-2, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Novita	$0.03	$0.03	$0.36	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

DeepSeek OCR-2 needs about 4 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with its full 8K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 1× GTX 1660 Super at about $29 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 960M tokens a month on Novita's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Fits on 1

What it costs to self-host DeepSeek OCR-2 at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (Full 8K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	4 GB	1× GTX 1660 Super	$29	960M tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	6 GB	1× RTX 2070	$50	2B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	9 GB	1× RTX 3060	$58	2B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest DeepSeek OCR-2 by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest DeepSeek OCR-2 per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs DeepSeek OCR-2
Llama 3.1 8B Meta	$0.025	$0.02	$0.05	131K	Dec 2023	−17%
DeepSeek OCR-2 This model DeepSeek	$0.03	$0.03	$0.03	8K
Qwen3.7-Flash Alibaba Cloud	$0.0467	$0.03	$0.13	1M		+56%
GPT-OSS-20B OpenAI	$0.0483	$0.03	$0.14	131K	Jun 2024	+61%
Llama 3.2 1B Meta	$0.056	$0.027	$0.201	128K	Dec 2023	+87%
Command R7B Cohere	$0.0583	$0.04	$0.15	128K		+94%
Gemma 3 12B Instruct Google Cloud	$0.0583	$0.05	$0.10	128K	Aug 2024	+94%
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	$0.0628	$0.039	$0.182	131K	Jun 2024	+109%
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B Nvidia	$0.075	$0.05	$0.20	262K	Jun 2025	+150%
Llama 3 8B Meta	$0.0833	$0.05	$0.25	8K	Mar 2023	+178%
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B Alibaba Cloud	$0.0917	$0.06	$0.25	262K		+206%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What DeepSeek OCR-2 accepts and can do, as published by DeepSeek.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.

Common questions

What is DeepSeek OCR-2 good for?

Document parsing and OCR. Apache 2.0 weights, small enough for a single consumer GPU, at the lower-cost end of DeepSeek's lineup.

When is DeepSeek OCR-2 not a good fit?

General chat, coding or agent work: it has no tool calling, and each call takes only a short document.

What is the cheapest way to run DeepSeek OCR-2?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Novita charges $0.03 in / $0.03 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 1x GTX 1660 Super at $29 a month, which costs the same as about 960M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host DeepSeek OCR-2?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 4 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $29 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.