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How To Get Deepseek AI API For Free! It's Now 100% FREE To Use 🚀Build AI Apps and Chatbots
Sep 16, 2025
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how to get the Deepseek uh AI model API
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key for completely free. Deepseek as you
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all know it's a Chinese-based
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open-source model and it's really
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popular for coding and software
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development and they do provide their
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official API.
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If you go to the platform.dece.com/
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usage. So right here on their official
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website, you need to top up. You need to
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simply add a payment method and you can
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actually add some credits by purchasing.
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So this is the official way by which you
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can purchase some credits and use their
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API. But there is also another
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alternative free way by which you can do
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this to get the free API key. So for
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this you need to visit this website
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openouter.ai.
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So this is an ultimate website where you
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can call uh every AI
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provider with a single API key. So it's
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a unified interface. So so simply go to
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the website simply login with your
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Google account and right in the model
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section you will see it has a list of
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all the popular AI models directly right
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here. So also you can search for this
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DeepS
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and Deepseek has this free model right
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here. Deepseek version 3.1 which is
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completely free and you can even access
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directly right here. You can go to the
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chat button and directly access this
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model simply type any message and now
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the AI will definitely respond to you.
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So we we don't need to install this
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model directly inside of a machine but
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you can do this. It's completely open
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source. But on this website open router
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you can directly uh build out any sort
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of application. So I can simply say
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build a calculator in browser.
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So directly the AI will generate the
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code for you for your calculator and
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same if you now use want to use or
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integrate this uh deepseek API inside
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your application. So for that you need a
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API key. So this uh website also
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provides you with the API key. For this
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you simply go to the actual model.
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Simply select
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and there you will see this option API.
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Simply go to this and you will see this
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option of create API key. So once you
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click this API and now you will be able
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to create a API key. Uh simply click
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just give it a name right here and uh
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and then click on create. So now this
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platform will give you this API key.
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Simply copy to clipboard. And now to use
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this API key uh it's very simple. You
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can install a VS code extension.
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So you can simply
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so this is the most popular extension
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which is called as Clint C.
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It's got almost 3 million installs.
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So once you uh start uh installing this
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this will be right in the sidebar
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section and uh you can definitely use
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this API key of deepseek inside this VS
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code extension to get started for
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completely free
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or you can make your own application as
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well. So, so you click on sign in after
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you
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just select the clin from here clin.
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So using this extension you can use any
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AI model just you need to plug the API
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key and after that you can use it. There
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are also other extensions which are also
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there which is code GPT as well. So I
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yeah so now it is successfully loaded.
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So right in the model section you just
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need to change the API provider to open
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router. So simply select here search for
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open router and just plug the API key
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what you got. After that from here in
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the inside the model section simply
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search for this free model deepseek.
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Uh
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so
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you can see that uh
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you would see these free models which
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are there.
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So you can use any of the models which
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are actually having this prefix free to
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it. Simply select the model. After that
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uh now come here simply ask the AI any
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sort of message. So now this API will be
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used right here and the deepseek will
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respond to you. If any of the APIs are
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not working, you can change it.
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So just make sure that you
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use the free one. So simply select.
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So you are using that API key that you
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has uh got from this open router and now
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you can see automatically the deepsek
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API is responding to you. So
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you can simply ask anything. So let me
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say build a scientific
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calculator web app and create a file.
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So you can ask any sort of coding
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related question using this extension.
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So now the TC is making an API request
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and it will start making a scientific
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calculator for you directly inside VS
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code and this is the best way by which
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you can get the deepse free API key.
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So it's automatically opening the files
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for you reading the files and making the
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necessary changes.
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So you can see that so it's
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automatically generating the code for
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you.
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So in the official method if you go to
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it you need to purchase the credits but
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uh this is the unofficial way by which
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and the free way by which you go to open
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router simply use any free model simply
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create an API key and this will be
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unlimited access will be given. So once
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you uh create the API key so there is no
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limitation on this that uh you will be
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having x amount of credits. So it's
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totally unlimited access is given. So
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once you create the API key using
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through this method open router.
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So for the free models it's completely
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unlimited access is there. So in this
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easy way you can install this extension
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in VS code to use this deepseek model
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through their API for completely free.
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And this you can do this for any model
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not specific to deep sea. So
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other AI models are also present. So the
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process remains the same. You come to
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the API section, create the API and
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these are also examples givens in
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different languages, Python, J,
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TypeScript. So here you replace the API
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key that you got and here you will be
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able to build out applications using
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DeepS.
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