DeepSeek R1
- Family
- DeepSeek R1
- Released
- 2025-01-20
- Context
- 128K
- Parameters
- 671B, 37B Active
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Multi-stage
Cheapest of 11 routes · Bitdeer AI
About
DeepSeek R1: Reasoning-optimized model with extended thinking capabilities. 128K context.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ BAgents
Q/$ AProviders(11)
Compare all 11Compare API pricing across 11 tracked provider routes 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 |
| OpenRouter | $0.700 | $2.50 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $1.35 | $5.40 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $1.35 | $5.40 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.35 | $5.40 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $3.75 | $10.00 | Serverless |
| Databricks Foundation Model Serving | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Microsoft Foundry | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Deprecated provider routes(3)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Together AI | Deprecated | — |
| NVIDIA NIM | Deprecated | deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1 |
| DeepInfra | Deprecated | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 |
Available via routers & gateways(16)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 89.9 | 2025-01Observed 2026-04-09 | — | Source |
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.2 | 2025-01Observed 2026-04-09 | — | Source |
| Aider Polyglot | 56.9 | 2026-04Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1372.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 71.5 | diamondObserved 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(3)
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Cheapest of 11 routes · Bitdeer AI