R1: price, performance and context
Open R1 by DeepSeek costs $0.70 per 1M input and $2.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 64K tokens in one request (≈ 190 pages of text) and scores 11.4 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 143 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 99.9%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.70
- Output / 1M tokens
- $2.50
- Context window
- 64K tokens
- Max. output
- 16K tokens
- Performance index
- 11.4 points · rank 143 of 212
- Coding index
- 24.6 points · rank 89 of 119
- Agentic index
- 1.1 points · rank 75 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $1.325 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jul 2024
- In the catalog since
- Jan 20, 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.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.001 | 6,800 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.001 | 8,500 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.004 | 2,800 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.006 | 1,600 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | – | does not fit the context |
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| Model | Licence | Performance | Your cost / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAI | Proprietary | 41.1 | $0.00 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAI | Open | 24.6 | $0.036 |
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| Model | Licence | Performance | Your cost / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | Open | 11.6 | $0.08 |
| MiniMax M1MiniMax | Proprietary | 11.7 | $1.10 |
| Sonar Reasoning ProPerplexity | Proprietary | 11.8 | $4.00 |