DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek's reasoning model. Competitive with o3 on math and coding at a fraction of the cost.
128K
tokens
8K
tokens
$0.55
per 1M tokens
$2.19
per 1M tokens
35
tokens/sec
Jan 2025
2025-01-20
$1.37
per 1M tokens
66.4
quality per $
Capabilities
Benchmarks
Price vs Quality
Context Window in Context
- Grok 3131K
- ▸ DeepSeek R1128K
- GPT-4o128K
- GPT-4o Mini128K
- Mistral Large 2128K
- DeepSeek V3128K
- Command R+128K
- Gemma 4 27B128K
Compare With
Open Source: Licensed under MIT
Not on our gateway yet
DeepSeek R1 is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. Swfte Connect turns your deployment into a managed endpoint that speaks the same API as every other model in this directory.
curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "deepseek:deepseek-reasoner",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'About DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek R1 is a reasoning AI model by DeepSeek, released on January 20, 2025. It supports a context window of 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K output tokens.
At $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens, its blended cost of $1.37/1M tokens puts it in the mid-range pricing tier. Its value score of 66.4 reflects the balance of quality and cost.
DeepSeek R1 is available as an open-source model under the MIT license, meaning you can self-host it for predictable costs or use it through API providers like Swfte Connect.
Using DeepSeek R1 with Swfte
Access DeepSeek R1 through Swfte Connect, our unified LLM gateway. Connect gives you a single API for 50+ models, with automatic routing, cost optimization, and fallback handling. You can also try DeepSeek R1 in our AI Playground before integrating.