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R1 pricing

DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass. Fully open-source model & [technical report](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250120). MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely! This page tracks 13 listings in total. Highlighted lows are $0.400 per million input and $0.400 per million output (see table for which seller matches each).

164K context·13 providers·save up to 27% vs native via Hyperbolic·verified Sep 25, 2026
Best input$0.400per 1M tokens · Hyperbolic
Best output$0.400per 1M tokens · Hyperbolic

Pricing across providers

Every row is a seller of R1 with token pricing we track. The cheapest input in this snapshot is from Hyperbolic. The bar chart shows the same input and output dollars per million for a quick scan.

A
Azure
Input / 1M
$1.35
Output / 1M
$5.40
D
DeepInfra
Input / 1M
$0.700
Output / 1M
$2.40
FA
Fireworks AI
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
H
Hyperbolic
Input / 1M
$0.400
Output / 1M
$0.400
N
Nebius
Input / 1M
$0.800
Output / 1M
$2.40
N
Novita
Input / 1M
$0.700
Output / 1M
$2.50
O
Openrouter
Input / 1M
$0.700
Output / 1M
$2.50
R
Replicate
Input / 1M
$3.75
Output / 1M
$10.00
S
Sambanova
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$7.00
S
Snowflake
Input / 1M
$1.35
Output / 1M
$5.40
TA
Together AI
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$7.00
VA
Vercel Ai Gateway
Input / 1M
$0.550
Output / 1M
$2.19
D
Deepseeknative
Input / 1M
$0.550
Output / 1M
$2.19
Cached in: $0.140

Input vs output · per provider

Pricing history

If you only care about current multi seller rates, use the pricing section. This timeline is for the official listing history. The native listing moved from $0.550 in and $2.19 out to $0.550 in and $2.19 out in the latest window.

  1. Since Sep 21, 2026

    $0.550 in · $2.19 out(current listing)

  2. Mar 13, 2026 → Sep 21, 2026

    $0.550 in · $2.19 out

Cost calculator

Pick any of the providers above and type how many tokens you expect per day, week, or year. We turn that into rough dollar totals for R1.

Provider

In: $1.35/M·Out: $5.40/M

0.135000¢ / req

0.270000¢ / req

Daily
$41
Monthly
$1.2K
Annual
$14.8K

Model specifications

Quick spec sheet for R1 before you dive back into pricing. Family: DeepSeek R1. Reported under Deepseek.

Context window
163,840 tokens
Max output
163,840 tokens
Vision (images)
No
Tool / function calling
Yes
Streaming
No
Released
Jan 2025
Primary provider
Deepseek
Model family
DeepSeek R1

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Frequently asked questions

Read these after the table if you want plain language around R1 rates. The short model note from our index: DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass. Fully open-source model & ...

R1 costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens via the native API. Prompt caching reduces input costs to $0.14/M tokens.

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