One monthly invoice
Usage is billed monthly against an invoice, payable by bank transfer or wire. Tell us what your accounting team needs to see on it and we will shape the reporting around that.
Payment & invoicing
Payment, invoicing and contracts — the enterprise route.
There is no checkout on this site, and that is deliberate. Companies do not pay by card on a marketing page; they pay against an invoice, under a contract, through a process.
Why there is no checkout here
A self-service API is designed for a person with a card. An enterprise purchase is designed around an invoice that has to match a purchase order, a contract that has to survive legal review, and a payment that has to clear your accounts payable process.
Putting a card form on this page would make it easier for one person to spend their own money and harder for a company to buy properly. So instead, you tell us what you need and a person handles it.
A contract you can negotiate
We are not limited to one fixed standard agreement. Send us your legal team's amendments and we will work through them before you commit to anything.
A named contact
One person who knows your account, rather than a ticket queue. That applies to billing questions as much as technical ones.
Net terms
Available for established accounts. If your procurement process requires payment after delivery, say so in the form and we will discuss it.
How this differs from going direct
DeepSeek's API is, in their own words, a self-service and standardized model. That is a deliberate design choice and it works well for a lot of customers. It does mean that their standard framework agreement cannot be modified, and that DeepSeek top-up is prepaid — you add credit before you spend it, rather than buying against a purchase order or credit terms. Invoicing itself is self-service — the invoice is raised from the billing console — but what arrives is a Chinese VAT invoice from their Chinese operating entity.
We are not saying you cannot pay them — their help center documents PayPal and card payment, and we would rather be accurate than convenient. The difference is the process around the payment: who signs, who you call, and what the invoice looks like when it reaches your finance team.
Questions about billing
Can we pay by card?
We bill by bank transfer against an invoice. If that genuinely does not work for your organization, tell us in the form and we will see what we can do — but we would rather be upfront that transfer is the default.
Do you take payment on this site?
No. There is no checkout, no card form and no stored payment details on this website. Anything to do with money happens under the contract, between our finance team and yours.
Is there a DeepSeek subscription or a top-up balance?
Not here. There is no subscription tier to pick and no prepaid balance to top up: you are billed for what you use, monthly, against an invoice. On DeepSeek's own platform the model is prepaid, and that prepaid step is the part finance teams most often flag.
How do we check our DeepSeek balance?
There is no prepaid balance to check, because nothing is prepaid. Usage is metered and it appears on the monthly invoice, so the figure your finance team reconciles is the same figure you were billed for — no credit sitting on an account, and no separate DeepSeek API top-up step for anyone to remember.
Can we get a purchase order process?
Yes. Tell us what your procurement process requires — PO number on the invoice, specific billing entity, particular reference format — and we will work with it.
What currency is the invoice in?
Tell us what your accounting team needs. Currency is part of what we agree in the contract, not something fixed by a checkout page.
Is there a minimum commitment?
That depends on the rate we agree, which depends on your volume. It is part of the quote conversation rather than a published rule.
WE HANDLEYOU DO
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Tell us your volume
Monthly token usage, and what you are running today. If we cannot beat your current cost, we say so.
- Quote
- Contract
- Invoice
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We quote and contract
A named account contact, a negotiable agreement, an invoice.
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You change one line
Point your existing client at our endpoint. Keep a fallback.
Tell us what you're running.
Send us your monthly volume and what you use today. We usually reply within one business day with a price and a named contact.