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R1 0528: price, performance and context

Open R1 0528 by DeepSeek costs $0.50 per 1M input and $2.15 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 163.8K tokens in one request (≈ 490 pages of text) and scores 13.1 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 126 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.50
Output / 1M tokens
$2.15
Context window
163.8K tokens
Max. output
32.8K tokens
Performance index
13.1 points · rank 126 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$1.038 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025
In the catalog since
May 28, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0018,200
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00110,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0033,700
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0052,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.054180

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