Context
164K
Max output
164K
Serving providers
12
Cheapest input
$0.40 /1M
Prices are on-demand list rates. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt1%default
EvalComputeProxy73.6default
GPQA Diamond81%default
Humanity's Last Exam15%default
IFBench40%default
LiveCodeBench77%default
Long-Context Reasoning55%default
MMLU-Pro85%default
Omniscience-27.1default
SciCode40%default
TerminalBench Hard16%default
τ²-bench37%default

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.40 to $5.00 per 1M tokens across 12 providers, so the dearest route costs 1150% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
HyperbolicCheapest$0.40$0.401
ComponentUnitStandardBatchCached
Text input/1M tok$0.4000
Text output/1M tok$0.4000
DeepSeek$0.55$2.191
OpenRouter$0.55$2.191
Vercel AI Gateway$0.55$2.191
DeepInfra$0.70$2.401
Nebius$0.80$2.401
Azure$1.35$5.401
Snowflake$1.35$5.401
SambaNova is dearest at $5.00 / $7.00

Price history

input + output $/1M since we started tracking
Input Output
Input down 27% since first tracked
$0.000$1.00$2.00$3.00Jan 28Jul 16Aug 22Jun 22$0.400$0.400

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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hyperbolic/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1deepseek/deepseek-r1openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1vercel_ai_gateway/deepseek/deepseek-r1deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1nebius/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1azure_ai/deepseek-r1snowflake/deepseek-r1fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1replicate/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1sambanova/DeepSeek-R1

Frequently asked questions

R1 pricing, context and availability

How much does R1 cost?

R1 costs $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens at its cheapest provider via Hyperbolic. Across 12 serving providers, input prices range from $0.40 to $5.00 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of R1?

R1 accepts up to 164K tokens of context and can return up to 164K output tokens.

Which providers serve R1?

R1 is available from 12 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Hyperbolic is currently the cheapest.

What can R1 do?

R1 supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching and structured output.

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