DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
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
- Family
- DeepSeek R1
- Released
- 2025-01-20
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 70B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-12
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Multi-stage
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.
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 5Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Cheapest of 5 routes · DeepInfra