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R1 API Pricing 2026

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Overview

R1 was released on January 20, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.550 per million input tokens and $2.00 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$0.550
Output$2.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
ReasoningTools

Pricing Comparison

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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

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Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$0.550
$2.000
61.7
84.4
70.8
64,000
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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
18.8 (48th pct)
Coding
15.9 (43th pct)
Math
68.0 (63th pct)
MMLU Pro
84.4 (88th pct)
GPQA
70.8 (64th pct)
LiveCodeBench
61.7 (67th pct)
AIME
68.3 (73th pct)
Aider
64.0 (60th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

R1 costs $0.000550 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002000 per 1,000 output tokens.
R1 is available from 0 provider(s). Check the comparison table offers the best price.
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