DeepSeek OCR
DeepSeek OCR is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- DeepSeek OCR
- Released
- 2025-10-21
- Context
- 8k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI
About
DeepSeek OCR is a specialized vision-language model for optical character recognition and document parsing from DeepSeek. It introduces Contexts Optical Compression, a novel approach to efficiently process documents. Released with arXiv paper 2510.18234 (October 2025). Available on vLLM from October 23, 2025.
DeepSeek OCR is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Novita AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.03 input and $0.03 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek OCR yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.030 | $0.030 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of DeepSeek OCR?
DeepSeek OCR has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does DeepSeek OCR cost?
DeepSeek OCR is available at $0.03/1M input tokens through Novita AI.
When was DeepSeek OCR released?
DeepSeek OCR was released on 2025-10-21.
Which providers offer DeepSeek OCR?
DeepSeek OCR is available from 1 provider: Novita AI.
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI