DeepSeekReleased on Jan 20, 2025

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is a language model from DeepSeek, released in January 2025.

DeepSeek-R1 is the first-generation reasoning model built atop DeepSeek-V3 (671B total parameters, 37B activated per token). It incorporates large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance its chain-of-thought and reasoning

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B benchmarks

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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B Performance Across Datasets

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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B model size

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B has 8.0 billion parameters and was trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

ParametersTraining tokens
8.0B
14.8Ttokens
1843× tokens-to-params ratio
Small (3–10B)
8.0B
1B7B70B405B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B API

Available from the model provider

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B latency

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B examples

Recent arena outputs from DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B license

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use, has 8.0B parameters.

License
MIT
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
8.0B

MIT License - allows commercial use

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B resources

Official sources for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, source repository, model weights.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B are Claude 3.7 Sonnet, LongCat-Flash-Chat, Qwen3 30B A3B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Models ranked just above and below DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B by LLM Stats score.

 

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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LongCat-Flash-Chat

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Qwen3 30B A3B

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o1-mini

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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

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Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

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FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B.

When was DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B released?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B was released on January 20, 2025 by DeepSeek. This is the official DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B available via API?

Yes, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details.

How big is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B has 8.0 billion parameters. It was trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B was created by DeepSeek.

What is the license for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is released under the MIT license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Where is the DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B paper or technical report?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B has a paper or technical report available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B against?

Common DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B comparisons include DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs LongCat-Flash-Chat, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs Qwen3 30B A3B. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.