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DeepSeek R1 vs Gemma 2 27B

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Gemma 2 27B details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Gemma 2 27B is the cheapest — 29% less than the priciest here ($104.00/mo vs $146.00/mo).

 DeepSeek R1Gemma 2 27B
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$0.650
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$0.650
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.001
Context window163,840 tokens8,192 tokens
Max output32,768 tokens2,048 tokens
Quality score84/10082/100
TierFlagshipBalanced
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1Gemma 2 27B
1,000$1.46$1.04
10,000$14.60$10.40
100,000$146.00$104.00
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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.

Gemma 2 27B

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