Can I get DeepSeek spend per day from the API?

Not as a series. Derive it from how much the balance drops each day, ignoring top-ups.

LLMs

How to get your DeepSeek API usage, balance and spend programmatically

Yes. GET https://api.deepseek.com/user/balance with your normal API key returns total, granted and topped-up balance per currency. There's no usage history endpoint.

What the DeepSeek API exposes

Signal	DeepSeek
Balance	Yes. GET /user/balance
Spend history	No
Cost breakdown	No
Plan and quota	No
Cost on each response	No
Rate-limit headers	None
Credential	API key

Call it yourself

Credential. A normal DeepSeek API key from the platform's API keys page.

Balance

curl https://api.deepseek.com/user/balance \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY"

{
  "is_available": true,
  "balance_infos": [
    { "currency": "USD", "total_balance": "42.10", "granted_balance": "0.00", "topped_up_balance": "42.10" }
  ]
}

Trimmed to the fields Argus reads. Values are examples.

Gotchas

Balances are strings. Parse them before comparing.
An account can hold more than one currency row. Argus reads the USD row when there is one.
A zero balance returns 402 "Insufficient Balance". There is no auto-recharge; top-ups are manual.
No rate-limit headers. Limits are per-account concurrency caps, not requests per minute.

How DeepSeek charges

Pure prepaid top-up, one price for everyone (no tiers). Automatic prompt caching; only differentiation is per-model concurrency caps.

At zero. Zero balance → 402 "Insufficient Balance"; manual top-up.

2,500 concurrency per second, per org. Per-account concurrency caps (2,500 flash / 500 pro), not RPM. No headers.

Or let Argus track it

Paste the key once. Argus keeps the ledger, and your coding agent reads it through the MCP server.

Reads the DeepSeek balance every hour and keeps the series, so you get burn per day (top-ups never count as negative spend) and days until it hits zero.
With the SDK, itemizes each call by endpoint and prices it at DeepSeek's per-operation rates.
Emails you on low balance, days to zero, a spend spike, or projected overage.
Hands all of it to your coding agent over MCP, so it can ask what a run cost or how much runway is left without leaving the editor.

> what has deepseek cost today, and how long until it runs out?

get_overview       → deepseek: mtd spend, burn per day, days to zero
get_request_costs  { "provider": "deepseek", "limit": 25 }
get_advisories     → credits_low, spend_spike, rate_limit_low …

Questions

Does DeepSeek have an API for its balance?: Yes. GET https://api.deepseek.com/user/balance with your normal API key returns total, granted and topped-up balance per currency. There's no usage history endpoint.
Can I get DeepSeek spend per day from the API?: Not as a series. Derive it from how much the balance drops each day, ignoring top-ups.
What happens when DeepSeek credits run out?: Zero balance → 402 "Insufficient Balance"; manual top-up.
What key does Argus need for DeepSeek?: A normal DeepSeek API key from the platform's API keys page.

Check API credit balance programmatically

The balance endpoint, auth header and response field for every major metered API, and the ones that only show a balance in the console.

Estimate runway on prepaid API credits

Days to zero is balance over burn rate. The hard part is the burn rate: top-ups, daily buckets and credits that aren't dollars.

Every balance endpoint

The balance call for each provider, side by side.