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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs DeepSeek R1

List-price comparison · R1 Distill Llama 70B details · DeepSeek R1 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), R1 Distill Llama 70B costs 12% less $128.00/mo vs $146.00/mo.

 R1 Distill Llama 70BDeepSeek R1
Input / 1M tokens$0.800$0.500
Output / 1M tokens$0.800$2.15
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0013$0.0015
Context window128k tokens163,840 tokens
Max output8,192 tokens32,768 tokens
TierFlashFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekDeepSeek

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R1 Distill Llama 70B

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DeepSeek R1

Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.

Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.