ds-balance

Checking your DeepSeek balance or token spend usually means switching tabs to the official dashboard mid-conversation. ds-balance pins a persistent status-dot badge to the top-right of every session header—green, amber, or red at a glance—so balance health is always in view without leaving the chat.

Click the badge to open a detail and usage panel: API call counts, input tokens (cache-hit and cache-miss), and output tokens are aggregated by day, hour, and model, rendered as stacked bar charts with hover tooltips showing precise breakdowns. Built-in DeepSeek pricing tables (including the post-Aug-17 peak/off-peak schedule) auto-select the correct rate to estimate per-interval cost. A one-click backfill can recover up to 90 days across 60 sessions, and the refresh cadence tightens to one minute when balance drops below the alert threshold, with 30-second retries on failure.

Ideal for developers making heavy daily API calls, team leads monitoring token spend, or anyone who wants balance, usage, cost breakdown, history backfill, and in-app top-up in a single interface. The top-up button opens an in-site overlay that redirects to DeepSeek's official checkout (Alipay or WeChat); the balance refreshes automatically once payment lands—no manual steps required.