DeepSeek R1: API pricing, providers and specs
DeepSeek R1 is a text model by DeepSeek. 9 providers serve it, from $1.79 to $10 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
How DeepSeek R1 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.79 /1M against a median of $1.10; 61% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 164K-token context window is larger than 30% of them (median 262K), about 250 pages of text.
- 9 providers serve it; 75% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the MIT license: commercial use allowed.
DeepSeek R1 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIMart | $0.448/1M | $1.79/1M | — | — |
 FastRouter | $0.50/1M | $2.18/1M | — | 164K |
 Novita AI | $0.70/1M | $2.50/1M | — | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.70/1M | From$2.50/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.85/1M | From$2.50/1M | $0.85/1M | 64K |
 Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.497/1M | $4.88/1M | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.35/1M | $5.40/1M | — | 128K |
 Azure | $1.35/1M | From$5.40/1M | — | — |
| Replicate | $3.75/1M | $10/1M | — | — |
- APIMart$1.79
- FastRouter$2.18
- Novita AI$2.50
- Hugging FaceFrom$2.50
- RequestyFrom$2.50
- Cloudflare Workers AI$4.88
- Vercel AI Gateway$5.40
- AzureFrom$5.40
- Replicate$10
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- DeepSeek
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 164K≈ 250 pages of text
- Max output
- 8K
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Jan 20, 2025
- License
- MITcommercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 684B
- Monthly searches
- 22K
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| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1this model | $1.79/1M | 164K | — | 9 |
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| Grok 4.7 | $4.80/1M | 500K | 1637 | 28 |
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 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
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The lowest price for DeepSeek R1 is $1.79 /1M, at APIMart.
APIMart, at $1.79 /1M. 9 providers serve DeepSeek R1; the table above lists every one with its price.
DeepSeek R1 reads up to 164K tokens per request and writes up to 8K.
Yes. DeepSeek R1's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the MIT license.
About 684B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
9 API providers serve DeepSeek R1. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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