Using DeepSeek R1 0528 Distill Qwen3-8B on Fireworks AI

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Fireworks AI and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Fireworks AI SDK or REST API to call accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-0528-distill-qwen3-8b — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.20/1M input, $0.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["FIREWORKS_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-0528-distill-qwen3-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Fireworks AI

Capabilities

About DeepSeek R1 0528 Distill Qwen3-8B

DeepSeek R1 0528 Distill Qwen3-8B is Alibaba's Qwen3 model with an optional reasoning mode. It offers a 160K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.