DeepSeek Pay Per Use

DeepSeek provides chat, reasoning, and code-completion models through an OpenAI-compatible API. Locus exposes a reviewed set of those operations with token-metered pricing, so agents can use DeepSeek from the same credit balance and credential as their other tools without a separate DeepSeek account.

Smart agent architectures route different tasks to different models based on complexity and cost. DeepSeek excels as the workhorse model in these setups:

• •Coding tasks — Route code generation, debugging, or fill-in-the-middle completion to a reviewed DeepSeek operation.
• •Reasoning chains — Use a reviewed DeepSeek V4 model for multi-step reasoning and inspect the metered price before execution.
• •High-volume processing — Process thousands of documents, emails, or data records at low per-unit cost
• •Fallback model — Use DeepSeek as an alternate provider when a workflow does not require the same model for every subtask.

Call DeepSeek with the documented OpenAI-compatible chat-completions format, a reviewed model ID, and your Locus API key. Each supported call uses credits from the same balance as your other agent tools. You can compare DeepSeek with OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, and Mistral without maintaining a separate provider credential or billing account; check each catalog endpoint for its supported request shape.