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DeepSeek R1 vs Ember-1

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Ember-1 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek R1 is the cheapest — 85% less than the priciest here ($146.00/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 DeepSeek R1Ember-1
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$3.00
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$15.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.0096
Context window163,840 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output32,768 tokens943,718 tokens
Quality score84/10082/100
TierFlagshipFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekFireworks

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1Ember-1
1,000$1.46$9.60
10,000$14.60$96.00
100,000$146.00$960.00
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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.

Ember-1

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