R1 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

R1 was released on January 20, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.700 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 64K tokens. API access is available through Deepseek.

Context Window

64K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.700

Output$2.50

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

ReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

Compare R1 with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
DS Deepseek	R1	$0.700	$2.500	61.7	84.4	70.8	64,000	Try
TD Thedrummer	Skyfall 36B V2	$0.550	$0.800	—	—	—	32,768	Try
O OpenAI	GPT Audio Mini	$0.600	$2.400	—	—	—	128,000	Try
W Writer	Palmyra X5	$0.600	$6.000	—	—	—	1,040,000	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM 4.5V	$0.600	$1.800	35.2	75.1	57.3	65,536	Try
M Nvidia	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1	$0.600	$1.800	—	—	—	131,072	Try
MS Microsoft	WizardLM-2 8x22B	$0.620	$0.620	—	40.0	17.6	65,535	Try
M Sao10k	Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B	$0.650	$0.750	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Sao10k	Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2	$0.650	$0.750	—	—	—	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 2 27B	$0.650	$0.650	—	38.4	16.7	8,192	Try
AI Aion Labs	Aion-1.0-Mini	$0.700	$1.400	—	—	—	131,072	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

R1 is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.550

Cheapest Input/M

$2.190

Cheapest Output/M

Vercel

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
V Vercel Best Price	$0.550	$2.190	-
N Novita	$0.700	$2.500	100.0%
A Azure	$1.485	$5.940	-
T Together	$3.000	$7.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

18.8 (47th pct)

Coding

15.9 (43th pct)

Math

68.0 (61th pct)

MMLU Pro

84.4 (86th pct)

GPQA

70.8 (64th pct)

LiveCodeBench

61.7 (63th pct)

AIME

68.3 (70th pct)

Aider

64.0 (58th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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