DeepSeekReleased on Jan 20, 2025

DeepSeek-R1: Benchmarks, Pricing & Size

DeepSeek-R1 is a language model from DeepSeek, released in January 2025.

DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning-focused language model from DeepSeek that features advanced thinking capabilities. It serves as the foundation for DeepSeek's reasoning model family and pioneered their thinking mode approach for complex

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DeepSeek-R1 pricing

Providers

DeepSeek-R1 starts at $0.550 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens via DeepSeek. See all 4 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency p95 sThroughput P95QuantInputOutput
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek
$0.550$2.19131.1K131.1K
0.30
9 c/s
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.850$2.50131.1K131.1K
0.30
1 c/s
Together logoTogether
$7.00$7.00131.1K131.1K
0.60
4 c/s
Fireworks logoFireworks
$8.00$8.00131.1K131.1K
0.30
2 c/s
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DeepSeek-R1 model size

DeepSeek-R1 has 671 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

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671B
Frontier (200B+)
671B
1B7B70B405B

DeepSeek-R1 API

API access coming soon

DeepSeek-R1 will be available through our gateway shortly.

DeepSeek-R1 examples

Recent arena outputs from DeepSeek-R1, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

DeepSeek-R1 license

DeepSeek-R1 is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 671.0B parameters.

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MIT
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
671.0B

MIT License - allows commercial use

FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek-R1.

When was DeepSeek-R1 released?

DeepSeek-R1 was released on January 20, 2025 by DeepSeek. This is the official DeepSeek-R1 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is DeepSeek-R1 available via API?

Yes, DeepSeek-R1 is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 4 providers tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 has 671 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 was created by DeepSeek.

What is the license for DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Where can I use DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 is available through 4 providers including DeepSeek, DeepInfra, Together, and 1 more.

Where is the DeepSeek-R1 paper or technical report?

DeepSeek-R1 has a paper or technical report available at https://www.deepseek.com/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.