The cheapos ClubDeepSeek: R1
deepseek/deepseek-r1
Price Published
- Input
- $0.70 per million tokens
- Output
- $2.50 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 64,000 tokens
- Max output
- 16,000 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jul 31, 2024
- Listed since
- Jan 20, 2025
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Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
- Intelligence index
- 11.4
- Coding index
- 24.6
- Agentic index
- 1.1
Scores from Artificial Analysis, as distributed in the OpenRouter catalog. They measure test suites, not request reliability on real work.
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About this model OpenRouter description
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....
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Catalog data from the OpenRouter model catalog, retrieved Sep 29, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC. A listing isn't a live availability check.