DeepSeek R1 Zero: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Zero is a language model from DeepSeek, released in January 2025.
DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrated remarkable performance on reasoning. With RL, DeepSeek-R1-Zero naturally emerged with
DeepSeek R1 Zero benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
How DeepSeek R1 Zero performs across real-world prompt categories.
Performance by conversation depth
How DeepSeek R1 Zero holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
DeepSeek R1 Zero Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Mon Aug 24 2026DeepSeek R1 Zero model size
DeepSeek R1 Zero has 671 billion parameters and was trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.
DeepSeek R1 Zero API
Available from the model provider
DeepSeek R1 Zero has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.
Read the official API documentationDeepSeek R1 Zero latency
DeepSeek R1 Zero time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
DeepSeek R1 Zero examples
Recent arena outputs from DeepSeek R1 Zero, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
DeepSeek R1 Zero license
DeepSeek R1 Zero 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 Zero resources
Official sources for DeepSeek R1 Zero: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, source repository, model weights.
DeepSeek R1 Zero vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to DeepSeek R1 Zero are o1-pro, Kimi-k1.5, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like DeepSeek R1 Zero
Models ranked just above and below DeepSeek R1 Zero by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about DeepSeek R1 Zero.