DeepSeek R1

DeepSeekreasoningOpen Source

DeepSeek's reasoning model. Competitive with o3 on math and coding at a fraction of the cost.

Context Window

128K

tokens

Max Output

8K

tokens

Input Price

$0.55

per 1M tokens

Output Price

$2.19

per 1M tokens

Speed

35

tokens/sec

Released

Jan 2025

2025-01-20

Blended Cost

$1.37

per 1M tokens

Value Score

66.4

quality per $

Capabilities

ChatCode GenerationReasoning

Benchmarks

Quality Index
91
MMLU Pro
85.9
HumanEval (Coding)
91.6
MATH
94.3
Arena ELO
1350

Price vs Quality

6080100$1.00$10.00$100.00Blended cost per 1M tokens (log scale) →GPT-4o — $6.25/1M, quality 85GPT-4o Mini — $0.375/1M, quality 72o3 Mini — $2.75/1M, quality 88o3 — $5.00/1M, quality 94GPT-4.1 — $5.00/1M, quality 89Claude Opus 4 — $45.00/1M, quality 91Claude Sonnet 4 — $9.00/1M, quality 88Claude 3.5 Haiku — $2.40/1M, quality 75Gemini 2.5 Pro — $5.63/1M, quality 92Gemini 2.0 Flash — $0.250/1M, quality 74Llama 4 Maverick — $0.400/1M, quality 80Llama 4 Scout — $0.275/1M, quality 71Mistral Large 2 — $4.00/1M, quality 79Codestral — $0.600/1M, quality 76DeepSeek V3 — $0.685/1M, quality 86Grok 3 — $9.00/1M, quality 87Grok 3 Mini — $0.400/1M, quality 78Command R+ — $6.25/1M, quality 68Amazon Nova Pro — $2.00/1M, quality 70Qwen 2.5 72B — $0.600/1M, quality 80Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B — $0.300/1M, quality 74Sonar Pro — $9.00/1M, quality 78GPT-5.5 — $17.50/1M, quality 97GPT-5.5 Pro — $105.00/1M, quality 96Claude Opus 4.7 — $15.00/1M, quality 96Gemini 3.1 Pro — $7.00/1M, quality 96DeepSeek V4 Pro — $1.32/1M, quality 89DeepSeek V4 Flash — $0.210/1M, quality 84Qwen 3.6 Plus — $3.50/1M, quality 86Grok 4.3 — $1.88/1M, quality 93Kimi K2.6 — $2.11/1M, quality 92Kimi K3 — $9.00/1M, quality 97Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $9.00/1M, quality 90GLM-5.1 — $2.03/1M, quality 88Claude Opus 4.8 — $15.00/1M, quality 98Qwen 3.7 Max — $5.00/1M, quality 94Claude Fable 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100MiniMax M3 — $1.50/1M, quality 89GPT-5.6 Sol — $17.50/1M, quality 98GPT-5.6 Terra — $7.00/1M, quality 93GPT-5.6 Luna — $0.700/1M, quality 83Gemini 3.6 Flash — $2.25/1M, quality 90Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite — $1.40/1M, quality 79Claude Sonnet 5 — $9.00/1M, quality 93GLM-5.2 — $2.90/1M, quality 91Claude Opus 5 — $15.00/1M, quality 99Claude Mythos 5 — $30.00/1M, quality 100Grok 4.5 — $4.00/1M, quality 94Qwen3.8 Max — $4.00/1M, quality 96DeepSeek R1 — $1.37/1M, quality 91DeepSeek R1
Cheaper is left, more capable is up. Nothing in the directory is both cheaper and at least as capable. Self-host models are left off the price axis — their cost depends on the hardware you run them on, not on tokens.

Context Window in Context

  • Grok 3131K
  • DeepSeek R1128K
  • GPT-4o128K
  • GPT-4o Mini128K
  • Mistral Large 2128K
  • DeepSeek V3128K
  • Command R+128K
  • Gemma 4 27B128K
Bar length is logarithmic — each full step is 10× the tokens. Shown against the models with the nearest context windows, not the directory extremes.

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.

The request
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"}]
  }'
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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.

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