DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B
Distilled
Smallest R1 distill, Llama 3.1 8B base. Tradeoff: limited reasoning depth vs the larger distills.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is a reasoning AI model from DeepSeek. It costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens (blended $0.109/M), with a 128,000-token context window.
INPUT
$0.070/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.200/M
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
128,000
tokens
What it is good at
- Smallest R1 distill
- Edge-friendly
- Open weights
Typical use cases
- Edge reasoning experiments
- Distillation research
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B cost?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.109 per million tokens.
What is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B's context window?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B supports up to 128,000 tokens of context in a single request.
What is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B best for?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is well suited to Smallest R1 distill, Edge-friendly and Open weights.
Who makes DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is developed and served by DeepSeek. It was released in Jan 2025.