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R1 Distill Llama 70B

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Open-weights reasoning model with chain-of-thought trained via RL. Comparable to o1 on math benchmarks at a fraction of the price.

R1 Distill Llama 70B is a reasoning AI model from DeepSeek. It costs $0.800 per million input tokens and $0.800 per million output tokens (blended $0.800/M), with a 8,192-token context window.

Profile inherited from upstream DeepSeek-R1 ↗ — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model.

INPUT
$0.800/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.800/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$0.800/M

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R1 Distill Llama 70B — blended price

Reconstructed from 91 days of recorded rate-card changes. Prices hold flat between changes because that is what a posted price does — no value here is interpolated.

CONTEXT
8,192
tokens
What it is good at
  • Open-weights reasoning
  • Visible chain-of-thought
  • Math & code
  • Cheap
Typical use cases
  • Reasoning agents
  • Math/STEM tools
  • Self-hosted reasoning

Benchmarks

vs. best public score
Scores inherited from DeepSeek-R1 — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model, so the underlying benchmark scores are identical.
MMLU90%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH95%
High-school competition math problems.
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
Real GitHub issues solved end-to-end.
LMArena Elo1361 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
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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Price history

1 recorded change
Recorded price changes for R1 Distill Llama 70B, newest first
DateRateWasNowChange
12 Jun 2026Input$0.700$0.800+14%

Rates per million tokens, as published by the provider or its router listing. Tracking runs since 3 May; anything earlier is not on record. See every tracked price change.

Frequently asked questions

How much does R1 Distill Llama 70B cost?

R1 Distill Llama 70B costs $0.800 per million input tokens and $0.800 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.800 per million tokens.

What is R1 Distill Llama 70B's context window?

R1 Distill Llama 70B supports up to 8,192 tokens of context in a single request.

What is R1 Distill Llama 70B best for?

R1 Distill Llama 70B is well suited to Open-weights reasoning, Visible chain-of-thought and Math & code.

Who makes R1 Distill Llama 70B?

R1 Distill Llama 70B is developed and served by DeepSeek.

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