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DeepSeek-R1: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

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 $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek
$0.550—$2.19131.1K/131.1K
0.30
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DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.850—$2.50131.1K/131.1K
0.30
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Together logoTogether
$7.00—$7.00131.1K/131.1K
0.60
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Fireworks logoFireworks
$8.00—$8.00131.1K/131.1K
0.30
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

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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.

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

DeepSeek-R1 context window

Input and output token limits for DeepSeek-R1, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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DeepSeek-R1 latency

DeepSeek-R1 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

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.

License
MIT
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
671.0B

MIT License - allows commercial use

DeepSeek-R1 resources

Official sources for DeepSeek-R1: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post, model weights.

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.

How much does DeepSeek-R1 cost?

DeepSeek-R1 pricing starts at $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens via DeepSeek, the lowest price among tracked providers.

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.

What is DeepSeek-R1 latency?

DeepSeek-R1 p95 time to first token is 0.30 seconds via DeepSeek over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

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.