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DeepSeek R1
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DeepSeek R1
Open-weights reasoning model from DeepSeek.
Try DeepSeek R1✓ Free trial available
Best for
Best for engineering teams who want frontier reasoning at OSS cost.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $0.55/mo
- Setup time
- 20 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓Top-tier open reasoning model
- ✓Dramatically cheaper than closed peers
- ✓Permissive license + self-host option
Where it falls short
- −Chain-of-thought tokens count against budget
- −Smaller community than Llama
- −API rate limits during peak hours
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20263 tiers
API (input)
$0.55
per 1M tokens
- ✓Reasoning enabled
API (output)
$2.19
per 1M tokens
- ✓Reasoning traces
Self-host
$0
perpetual
- ✓MIT license
Overview
DeepSeek R1 is an open-weights reasoning LLM that matches or beats closed frontier models on math, code, and reasoning benchmarks. MIT license, available via API or self-host.
Key features
- ●671B MoE / 37B active
- ●Reasoning chains exposed
- ●MIT license
- ●OpenAI-compatible API
- ●Distilled smaller variants
Best use cases
Reasoning-heavy workloads
Run math, coding, and analysis tasks at frontier quality without GPT-5/Claude pricing.
Self-hosted reasoning
Deploy on owned GPUs for sensitive-data reasoning tasks.
Integrations
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