DeepSeek reasoning model for multi-step analysis, math, coding, and tools
DeepSeek R1 0528 is offered by 13 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 12 of them. Its reference price is $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Deep Infra at $0.50 / $2.15 per 1M, about 6.0× below the reference price.
Artificial Analysis rates it 13.1 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.912 per 1M, that is roughly 14 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on.
The context window is 163,840 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 75,000 to 164,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-07.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Infra deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Cloud | $0.50 | $2.15 | $0.35 | — | 163,840 | 64,000 | |
| NanoGPT deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Gateway | $0.50 | $2.15 | $0.35 | — | 163,840 | 32,768 | |
| Meganova deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Gateway | $0.50 | $2.15 | — | — | 163,840 | 64,000 | |
| submodel deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Gateway | $0.50 | $2.15 | — | — | 75,000 ⚠ | — | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.50 | $2.15 | $0.35 | — | 163,840 | 32,768 | |
| Alibaba (China) | First-party | $0.50 | $2.18 | — | — | 163,840 | 32,768 | |
| Alibaba (China) | First-party | $0.57 | $2.29 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| TensorX | Gateway | $0.66 | $2.60 | $0.17 | $0.83 | 164,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.70 | $2.50 | $0.35 | — | 163,840 | 32,768 | |
| NovitaAI | Gateway | $0.70 | $2.50 | $0.35 | — | 163,840 | 32,768 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 2 of 13 providers.
11 / 13 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.