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DeepSeek: R1

DEEPSEEK Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context64,000Tokens
API Cost / 1M$3.20Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

  • Reasoning
DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass. Fully open-source model & [technical report](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250120). MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely!

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.70 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$2.50 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026

Evaluate Competitors

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