DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek · model · context window 128,000 tokens.
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? Qwen3.5 Flash matches or beats DeepSeek R1 on the overall Arena and costs about $18.70/month versus $145.00/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $126.30/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 27 August 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run DeepSeek R1
The same model is resold by 15 providers we track. The typical one charges 1.6× what the cheapest does — $1.15 against $0.7250 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| NanoGPT | $0.4000 | $1.70 | $0.7250 |
| Siliconflow | $0.5000 | $2.18 | $0.9200 |
| Siliconflow CN | $0.5000 | $2.18 | $0.9200 |
| Drun | $0.5500 | $2.20 | $0.9630 |
| Alibaba CN | $0.5740 | $2.29 | $1.00 |
| Edenai | $0.7000 | $2.40 | $1.13 |
| Huggingface | $0.7000 | $2.50 | $1.15 |
| Kilo | $0.7000 | $2.50 | $1.15 |
| OpenRouter ↗ | $0.7000 | $2.50 | $1.15 |
| Azure | $1.35 | $5.40 | $2.36 |
Showing the 10 cheapest of 15. The full list for every model is in the open endpoint dataset.
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek R1 is pre-selected below. Enter your token counts and volume to see the cost per request, per day and per month — then switch models to compare.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Input cost
- $0.000400
- Output cost
- $0.000850
- Per request
- $0.00125
- Per day
- $1.25
- Per month
- $37.50
Source: community-hosted (cheapest of 15 providers, nano-gpt via models.dev). Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 27 August 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.