What is this service?
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab whose open, low-cost large language models became famous for matching frontier reasoning quality at a fraction of the price. It ships two things people actually pay attention to: a free consumer chat app at chat.deepseek.com (and mobile apps), and a developer API at platform.deepseek.com that powers apps, agents, and coding tools.
The chat app — where you talk to the model in a browser or phone, with a DeepThink reasoning toggle and web search — is free to use and needs no card. Developers, on the other hand, pay per token through the API: current models like deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner (now served as deepseek-v4-flash) are billed against a prepaid balance you top up in advance. Because the pricing is famously cheap, a few dollars of credit can last a long time.
The catch for Iranian users is that DeepSeek's top-up page runs on international card and PayPal rails, and your local bank card is declined there. Mehbit lets you fund a reloadable virtual Visa or Mastercard with USDT and add credit at platform.deepseek.com.
Why is payment hard?
Many local bank cards are not authorized for international SaaS billing. Services process payments through Stripe on international rails, so domestic-only cards are often declined even when you have sufficient balance.
Accepted card types
- Virtual Visa
- Virtual Mastercard
- Prepaid
- Debit
- Credit card
- Crypto (direct)
Reloadable virtual Visa and Mastercard work at DeepSeek's top-up page when the billing details match; single-use gift-card BINs and UnionPay are unreliable, and crypto cannot be sent to DeepSeek directly. Because DeepSeek is China-based, an otherwise valid card is occasionally country-blocked on a China-routed charge.
Best Mehbit card for DeepSeek
Issue it, top up with USDT, then pay at checkout — in your own name.
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Fees & pricing
Clear and simple — the card load fee and the per-transaction fee are separate, with no hidden costs.
5%
Card load fee
Charged when you move money from your wallet onto a card.
0.35USDT
Per-transaction fee
Charged on every payment you make with the card.
from20USDT
Card issuance fee
Depends on the card you choose — the exact fee for each card is shown above.
For businesses
We don’t charge businesses any extra fee — exactly the same rates apply. Need a dedicated solution? Get in touch.
Rates may be updated from time to time; the final rate is always shown in the app before you pay.
Card payment steps
Issue a Mehbit virtual Visa or Mastercard, top up with USDT, then add the card at platform.deepseek.com under Top up / Billing and load your prepaid balance.
- Step 01
Sign up for Mehbit
Create an account in the web app or Telegram miniapp.
- Step 02
Top up with USDT
Fund your Mehbit wallet with USDT.
- Step 03
Issue a virtual card
Issue a Mehbit Visa or Mastercard for international subscriptions.
- Step 04
Pay at the service
Enter the card details on the service's checkout page.
FAQ
Does DeepSeek accept a virtual Visa or Mastercard?
Yes. DeepSeek's API top-up page charges international Visa and Mastercard cards, and a reloadable Mehbit virtual card presents as a standard international card, so it works when the billing name, address, and ZIP match.
Can I pay DeepSeek with a Mehbit card?
Yes. Fund a Mehbit virtual Visa or Mastercard with USDT and add it at platform.deepseek.com under Top up / Billing. Most Mehbit card charges to DeepSeek's USD billing succeed.
How much does DeepSeek cost?
The chat app is free. The API is pay-as-you-go with no subscription: you top up a prepaid balance and pay per token. As of 2026, deepseek-v4-flash (the model behind deepseek-chat / deepseek-reasoner) is about $0.14 per 1M input tokens (cache miss), $0.0028 on a cache hit, and $0.28 per 1M output tokens; deepseek-v4-pro is roughly $0.435 / $0.87 per 1M input/output. Prices are in USD.
Can I pay DeepSeek with crypto?
Not directly — DeepSeek does not accept USDT, BTC, or any cryptocurrency. Use Mehbit to convert USDT into a virtual card balance, then top up DeepSeek in USD with that card.
Is there a free trial for the DeepSeek API?
There is no formal free trial. The API is prepaid, so your key only works after you load a balance. The consumer chat app, however, is free to use with no card at all.
What if my local bank card is declined by DeepSeek?
Iranian bank cards are declined on DeepSeek's international top-up page. Use a Mehbit virtual Visa or Mastercard funded with USDT.
Tips
If you only need the chatbot, use the free chat.deepseek.com app — no card required. You only need to pay when you use the developer API.
The API is prepaid, so load a balance before your key will work. Because pricing is cheap, even a $5–$10 top-up goes a long way; add more only when the balance runs low.
Use a consistent billing name, address, and ZIP that match your Mehbit card so the top-up passes address checks.
Most Mehbit card top-ups to DeepSeek go through on its USD billing, but DeepSeek is China-based — if a charge is country-blocked, don't retry repeatedly.
DeepSeek does not accept crypto directly, so fund a Mehbit virtual card with USDT first, then top up on DeepSeek in USD.
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