Support MIR card payments for DeepSeek API — make paid access easier for users in Russia

[Egor-Liadsky]

Hello DeepSeek team,

Please consider adding support for MIR, Russia’s domestic card payment system, to top up DeepSeek API balances.

For users in Russia who cannot pay with their locally issued cards, payment availability creates a barrier to adopting the API and using tools such as DeepSeek Harness. An official MIR payment option would make it easier to start using paid services and replenish balances regularly.

There is already a substantial audience in Russia:

• According to Mediascope data reported by RBC, DeepSeek reached 13 million people in Russia in September 2026, representing 11% of the population aged 12 and older.
• DeepSeek ranked second among AI services in Russia by monthly reach in that report.

Source: RBC, October 16, 2026 — Mediascope’s AI audience measurements.

These figures measure website and mobile app audiences, not paying API customers or Harness users. Nevertheless, they demonstrate a large existing audience from which paid adoption could grow.

What MIR support could bring to DeepSeek:

• More paying users: give existing users a practical way to move from trying DeepSeek to building with its API.
• Higher retention and repeat top-ups: reduce the chance that users abandon a tool because replenishing their balance is difficult.
• Greater adoption of DeepSeek Harness: make it easier for developers to use DeepSeek models in their daily coding workflows.
• More direct customer relationships: reduce reliance on third-party resellers and payment intermediaries.
• More integrations: lower the payment barrier for independent developers and small teams evaluating DeepSeek for their products.

Suggested first step

Start with one-time API balance top-ups using MIR cards, either directly or through an authorized payment partner, subject to the relevant payment-provider and regulatory requirements.

Could the team evaluate this option or forward the request to the team responsible for API billing? If this discussion belongs elsewhere, please point us to the appropriate feedback channel.

Other users interested in MIR payments: please upvote and share your intended use case — personal API usage, DeepSeek Harness, or a business integration.

Thank you!

[caseyryan]

完全支持楼主！如果 DeepSeek 市场团队有人看到这条评论，希望你们能认真考虑一下这个建议。俄罗斯真的有很多人非常需要这个功能！

[KotDath]

This would be an amazing addition to DeepSeek! It's hands down the best model for me right now, and it would be super convenient to be able to pay directly without going through third parties

[aolenev]

Agree, DS is one of the leaders now, fast and smart. Upvote for this issue

[AlexGladkov]

Using only DS right now and I love this thing. Definitely I'd like to use it more and I will use it more if there will be MIR support!

[mcfax-arch]

Kimi has already implemented payment via MIR. Is DeepSeek not capable of that? We pay DeepSeek through intermediaries, and we leave part of the money with the intermediaries. I would rather spend that money on tokens.

[andrey-tikhov]

I tried to find Kimi MiR payments btw and miserably failed :)
Yet would love to have deepseek support

[AlexDevyatov]

DS is much better than GPT right now. Support MIR, please

[mimiq4343]

btw look at Kimi, they have MIR support, but those models are shit. we need DS!

[dmchmk]

It would be great to have possibility to pay for DeepSeek's APIs directly to the DeepSeek and not to bother with crypto and vpns for openrouter proxies

[TimoshN]

Sign for MIR

[keksmd]

Sign for MIR

[dedushkaalex]

中国人是我们的兄弟！

[AndreyTheWeb]

газ братья, надо делать для братушек оплату

[grand3680]

Sign for MIR!

[AlekseyVY]

I support MIR! This will help DeepSeek to grow.

[fedyarodin]

I'll switch to Deepseek from Claude/Codex immediately after adding this feature 🥹🥹🥹

[tequilaonelove]

I'll switch to Deepseek from Claude/Codex immediately after adding this feature 🥹🥹🥹

Affirmative.I’ll switch over too.

[danilashamin]

SIGN FOR MIR!

[nightdevcraft]

Sign for MIR!

[plugn]

Миру - Мир!

[kalist28]

Sign for MIR!

[SkyForger79]

Sure thing! It's inevitable. Let's speed it up. And many thanks to Egor Lyadsky for raising the issue!

[n3oru]

Thanks to Egor, sign for mir :)

[hosseinqadiri]

Fully support this proposal. Regional payment availability is one of the most critical friction points for developers and independent teams trying to adopt the DeepSeek API outside Western financial rails.

When developers cannot top up balances natively using local instruments (like MIR or regional settlement gateways), they are forced into unofficial intermediaries, which introduces recurring accounting risks, unexpected latency, and subscription churn. Having direct settlement options drastically expands real-world engineering adoption.

From an architectural standpoint, regional billing integrations and decentralized/multi-currency checkout systems have been a major focus in our ecosystem discussions, where cross-border access and settlement bottlenecks are actively analyzed for decentralized platforms:
👉 Reference community discussions on regional settlement & infrastructure: https://github.com/orgs/iranpsc/discussions

Enabling MIR top-ups—even as fixed one-time balance credits rather than recurring auto-debit—would be a frictionless trial step for DeepSeek's finance and billing operations.

[nazntrade]

This is probably one of the most needed features at the moment.

[NikKonshin]

Sign for MIR!

[DotBlood]

Sign for MIR

[str2hex]

Sing for MIR!!!

[unlike777]

pls

[a13xk]

Please add support for payments through MIR.

[chortdev]

Sign for MIR!

[mefetran]

Sign for MIR