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R1 API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 14, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

R1 was released on January 20, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.700 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 164K tokens. API access is available through Deepseek.

Context Window
164K
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.700
Output$2.40
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
Context
Actions
$0.700
$2.400
163,840
Try
$0.500
$1.500
16,385
Try
$0.540
$0.540
32,768
Try
$0.550
$0.800
32,768
Try
$0.570
$1.420
65,536
Try
$0.600
$1.800
65,536
Try
$0.600
$1.800
131,072
Try
$0.650
$0.750
131,072
Try
$0.650
$0.750
32,768
Try
$0.650
$0.650
8,192
Try
$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.

7
Providers
$0.300
Cheapest Input/M
$1.200
Cheapest Output/M
Chutes
Best Price

Provider Pricing

7 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
C
Chutes
Best Price
$0.300
$1.200
-
V
Vercel
$0.550
$2.190
-
N
Novita
$0.700
$2.500
100.0%
D
DeepInfra
$1.000
$3.000
91.3%
A
Azure
$1.485
$5.940
-
T
Together
$3.000
$7.000
-
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
$N/A
$N/A
-
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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R1
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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
18.7 (53th pct)
Coding
15.7 (52th pct)
Math
68.0 (77th pct)
MMLU Pro
84.4 (90th pct)
GPQA
70.8 (74th pct)
LiveCodeBench
61.7 (74th pct)
AIME
68.3 (78th pct)
Aider
64.0 (58th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

R1 costs $0.000700 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002400 per 1,000 output tokens.
R1 is available from 7 provider(s). Chutes offers the best price.
We compare R1 with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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