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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs GPT-5.4 Mini

List-price comparison ·R1 Distill Llama 70B details ·GPT-5.4 Mini details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), R1 Distill Llama 70B is the cheapest — 53% less than the priciest here ($128.00/mo vs $270.00/mo).

 R1 Distill Llama 70BGPT-5.4 Mini
Input / 1M tokens$0.800$0.750
Output / 1M tokens$0.800$4.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0013$0.0027
Context window8,192 tokens400k tokens
Max output8,192 tokens128k tokens
Quality score82/10080/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moR1 Distill Llama 70BGPT-5.4 Mini
1,000$1.28$2.70
10,000$12.80$27.00
100,000$128.00$270.00
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R1 Distill Llama 70B

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GPT-5.4 Mini

Good default for everyday chat, summarization, and lightweight agent steps where GPT-5.4-level reasoning isn't required.

Quality gap widens on long, multi-hop reasoning tasks — needs careful prompt design to avoid silent failures on edge cases.

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