DeepSeek — open-weight Chinese LLM family. Strong cost-to-quality ratio and good code generation.
Key strengths
- Open weights
- Cost-efficient
- Strong code
- Good Chinese + English
Use cases
- Budget deployments
- Self-hosting
- Code generation
- Research baselines
Alibaba's alibaba/deepseek-r1-0528 is a frontier text generation model in the Qwen family. It excels at complex reasoning, agentic workflows, code generation, and long-form writing tasks, with native support for streaming, tool calling, JSON mode, and multi-turn conversations.
The model handles long-context inputs gracefully and is particularly effective for software engineering, multi-step research, and end-to-end project execution. Its tokenizer and pricing are optimized for high-throughput production workloads, with a competitive cost profile relative to other models in its tier.
alibaba/deepseek-r1-0528 is fully OpenAI-compatible — drop in your existing OpenAI Python or Node SDK and switch `baseURL` to `https://api.tokenlx.ai`. TokenLX transparently routes your requests to the optimal provider endpoint while preserving streaming, function-calling, and structured-output semantics.
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Sample code & API
TokenLX normalizes requests and responses across providers. Use any OpenAI SDK or our native SDK.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.tokenlx.ai/v1",
api_key="sk-tokenlx-...",
)
# Non-streaming
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-r1-0528",
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"},
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
# Streaming
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-r1-0528",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Tell me a story"}],
stream=True,
)
for chunk in stream:
print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="", flush=True)Replace sk-aihubrouter-… with your key from the dashboard.