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Deprecated on Aug 28, 2025. 3 providers still list it at the prices below.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5BDeprecated

DeepSeekReleased Jan 1, 2025
Compare DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5BCount tokens for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B
Context
131K
Max output
131K
Serving providers
3
Cheapest input
$0.09 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Headline indices
Intelligence Index
5.5
of 100
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 20264.6default—
GPQA Diamond10%default—
Humanity's Last Exam3%default—
IFBench13%default—
LiveCodeBenchArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 20267%——
Long-Context Reasoning2%default—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202627%default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 20267%——
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

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

Input pricing runs from $0.09 to $0.18 per 1M tokens across 3 providers, so the dearest route costs 100% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
NscaleCheapest$0.09$0.091
Standardnscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
ComponentUnitStandard
Text input/1M tok$0.09
Text output/1M tok$0.09
Fireworks AI$0.10$0.101
Together AI$0.18$0.181

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
$0.00$0.05$0.10May 8Dec 9Jun 22Sep 15$0.09$0.09

Cost calculator

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$25
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Model IDs

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nscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5Bfireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1p5btogether_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B pricing, context and availability

Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B still available?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B was deprecated on 2025-08-28, but 3 serving providers still list it.

How much does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B cost?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B costs $0.09 per 1M input tokens from Nscale, and $0.09 per 1M output tokens from Nscale. Across 3 serving providers, input prices range from $0.09 to $0.18 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B accepts up to 131K tokens of context and can return up to 131K output tokens.

Which providers serve DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1 5B is available from 3 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Nscale is currently the cheapest.

Other DeepSeek models

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026

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