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Balanced — strong quality at a mid priceOpen Weights
R1 Pricing
DeepSeek · deepseek-deepseek-r1
Input / 1M tokens
$0.700
Output / 1M tokens
$2.50
Context window
163,840 tokens
≈ 218 pages of text
Max output
16k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0018
1,000 requests / month$1.84/mo10,000 requests / month$18.40/mo100,000 requests / month$184.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with R1 preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Performs strongly on math, coding, and multi-step reasoning within 128k context. Low input pricing supports high-volume workloads.
The business tradeoff
Open-weights deployment demands substantial GPU resources. Output token cost is higher relative to input and closed frontier models.
Cheaper from DeepSeek
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.