DeepSeek-R1 — reviews, specs & pricing

DeepSeek's open reasoning model rivaling OpenAI o1.

Summary

DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning-focused model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning, achieving performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 on math and coding benchmarks. It's released fully open-weight under MIT license. It sparked wide adoption due to low cost and openness.

Sample use case

Used for research into reasoning models, math/coding benchmarks, and cost-efficient reasoning applications. Widely used for distillation into smaller models.

Specifications

  • Provider: deepseek
  • License: open
  • Parameters: 671B
  • Context: 128k tokens
  • Input price: $0.55/M tok
  • Output price: $2.19/M tok
  • Released: 2025-01-20

Pros

  • MIT licensed, fully open
  • Strong reasoning performance
  • Very low API cost

Cons

  • Verbose chain-of-thought output
  • Requires significant hosting compute
  • Some safety/alignment concerns noted

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Frequently asked questions

What is DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 is a reasoning-focused model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning, achieving performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 on math and coding benchmarks. It's released fully open-weight under MIT license. It sparked wide adoption due to low cost and openness.

How much does DeepSeek-R1 cost?

DeepSeek-R1 costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens.

Is DeepSeek-R1 open source?

DeepSeek-R1 is released under the open license.