DeepSeek Gives Away 25GiB Image Cloud Storage for Free: No Cost for Uploads, Charges Only for Usage

Beating AI News reports that DeepSeek has launched the Files API alongside V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. Developers can upload images to DeepSeek and reference them directly in model requests using a file_id. The same image can be reused across multiple requests without needing to re-upload each time. According to the official statement, the Files API itself is free of charge. Currently, the Files API supports only images, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP formats. Each file can be up to 64 MiB, with a maximum of 25 GiB or 10,000 files per user. When uploading, users can set an expiration period ranging from 1 hour to 30 days; if no expiration is set, files can be stored permanently. The API primarily addresses issues with large images and repeated uploads. When embedding images directly into requests, the inline limit for a single image is 32 MiB; by using file_id, a single image can go up to 64 MiB. While the Files API upload and storage are free, the model will still charge based on the tokenized cost of reading the image. However, this is not yet a general-purpose file storage solution. The official documentation only permits image uploads and does not provide an interface for downloading file content—users can only query, reference, or delete files. The files are mainly intended for repeated use in API requests with deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. [Original Link]