DeepSeek R1
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
- 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 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 |
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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Comparison and alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of DeepSeek R1?
DeepSeek R1 has a context window of 128k tokens.
How much does DeepSeek R1 cost?
DeepSeek R1 pricing ranges from $0.1/1M to $3.75/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was DeepSeek R1 released?
DeepSeek R1 was released on 2025-01-20.
Which providers offer DeepSeek R1?
DeepSeek R1 is available from 14 providers: DeepSeek Platform, OpenRouter, Together AI, Fireworks AI, NVIDIA NIM, Microsoft Foundry, Databricks Foundation Model Serving, DeepInfra, AWS Bedrock, Bitdeer AI, SiliconFlow, Replicate API, GCP Vertex AI, Vercel AI Gateway.
What benchmarks has DeepSeek R1 been tested on?
DeepSeek R1 has been evaluated on 5 benchmarks, including HumanEval, SWE-bench Verified, Aider Polyglot, Chatbot Arena, Google-Proof Q&A.
Cheapest of 14 routes · Bitdeer AI