name: DeepSeek User Balance API Capabilities
description: >-
  Capabilities exposed by the DeepSeek User Balance API for retrieving the
  current account balance.
capabilities:
  - name: Get User Balance
    description: Returns the current balance for the authenticated DeepSeek account.
    operationId: getUserBalance
    method: GET
    path: /user/balance
use_cases:
  - name: Spend monitoring
    description: Track DeepSeek API spend and remaining credit programmatically.
  - name: Usage gating
    description: Pause or throttle workloads when the account balance falls below a threshold.
  - name: Billing dashboards
    description: Surface DeepSeek balance information inside internal cost dashboards.