LLM Reference

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

Released
2025-01-20
Last refreshed
2026-05-22
Status
Researched 16d ago
Open SourceRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
  • 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
Released
2025-01-20
Context
128k
Parameters
70B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
Specialization
general
Training
multistage
Fine-tuning
task_specific
Created by

Advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.800
Input / 1M
$0.700

Cheapest of 5 routes · DeepInfra

About

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is DeepSeek's DeepSeek R1 model with an optional reasoning mode. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is an open-source model in the DeepSeek R1 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, reasoning, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, and 2 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.35 input and $1.05 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B yet.

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 5

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
DeepInfra$0.700$0.800
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.700$0.800
Serverless
Novita AI$0.800$0.800
Serverless
Fireworks AI$0.900$0.900
Serverless

Capabilities

ReasoningStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

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Migration checks

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