Classic open reasoning model for transparent math, coding, and deliberate problem solving
DeepSeek-R1 is offered by 22 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 19 of them. Its reference price is $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $7.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NanoGPT at $0.40 / $1.70 per 1M, about 7.5× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 11.4 on the Intelligence Index, with 24.6 for coding and 1.1 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.725 per 1M, that is roughly 16 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.2617, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 163,839 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 64,000 to 164,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning and tool use. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iFlow | Gateway | Free | — | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | ||
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.70 | $0.20 | — | 128,000 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| SiliconFlow deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | Cloud | $0.50 | $2.18 | — | — | 164,000 ⚠ | 164,000 | |
| SiliconFlow (China) deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | Cloud | $0.50 | $2.18 | — | — | 164,000 ⚠ | 164,000 | |
| SiliconFlow (China) Pro/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | Cloud | $0.50 | $2.18 | — | — | 164,000 ⚠ | 164,000 | |
| D.Run (China) | Gateway | $0.55 | $2.20 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Alibaba (China) | First-party | $0.57 | $2.29 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Eden AI deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | Gateway | $0.70 | $2.40 | — | — | 163,840 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.70 | $2.50 | — | — | 64,000 ⚠ | 16,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.70 | $2.50 | — | — | 64,000 ⚠ | 16,000 | |
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 22 providers.
18 / 22 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
1 more channels offer $0 (iFlow); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 56.9 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | — | 15.9 | index | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | — | 35.7 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | — | 6.1 | success rate | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
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.