DeepSeek: R1, DeepSeek — route, pricing & source
DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass....
OpenRoutermediumLast checked: May 14, 2026
Input
$0.7000 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$2.50 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available
Context and limits
Context window
64K
Max output
16,000
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Closed
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
ToolsReasoning
From source metadata + verification fields — confirm provider docs before production.
Benchmarks
No safely merged benchmark result for this model yet.
Access and license
Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Closed · API onlyNo public weights: use through a vendor’s cloud API or product. “Proprietary” means the creator does not distribute the trained model weights for self-hosting.
Example costs
Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request
10,000 requests
$14.50
100,000 requests
$145.00
1,000,000 requests
$1,450.00
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