DeepSeek R1
Released
2025-01-20
Last refreshed
2026-05-22
Status
Researched 46d ago
Open SourceCodingRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use
DeepSeek R1 is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
- Family
- DeepSeek R1
- Released
- 2025-01-20
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 671B, 37B Active
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- multistage
- Fine-tuning
- task_specific
Created by
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.300
Input / 1M
$0.100
Cheapest of 14 routes · Bitdeer AI
About
DeepSeek R1: Reasoning-optimized model with extended thinking capabilities. 128K context.
DeepSeek R1 is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, reasoning, structured outputs, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through DeepSeek Platform, OpenRouter, Together AI, and 11 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.1 input and $0.3 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include HumanEval 89.9, SWE-bench Verified 49.2, and Aider Polyglot 56.9.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ B3 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Q/$ A1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 14Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitdeer AI | $0.100 | $0.300 | Serverless |
| SiliconFlow | $0.250 | $0.800 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.560 | $1.68 | Serverless |
| DeepSeek Platform | $0.550 | $2.19 | Serverless |
Capabilities
ReasoningStructured OutputsCode Execution
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 89.9 | 2025-01 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.2 | 2025-01 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 |
| Aider Polyglot | 56.9 | 2026-04 | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards |
| Chatbot Arena | 1372.0 | — | https://lmarena.ai |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 71.5 | diamond | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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