DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- DeepSeek R1
- Released
- 2025-01-20
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 8B
- 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 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B 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
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(2)
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.
NVIDIA LLM Router Blueprint
RouterNVIDIA's open-source AI blueprint for LLM routing that selects the optimal model per prompt via intent classification or neural auto-routing; being deprecated 2026-06-20.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI