R1 Distill Llama 70B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 16, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

R1 Distill Llama 70B was released on January 23, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.030 per million input tokens and $0.110 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Deepseek.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.030

Output$0.110

Cached$0.015

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output56 tok/s

TTFT0.87s

median latency

Capabilities

ReasoningToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare R1 Distill Llama 70B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
M Deepseek	R1 Distill Llama 70B	$0.030	$0.110	26.6	79.5	40.2	131,072	Try
G Google	Gemma 3n 4B	$0.020	$0.040	14.6	48.8	29.6	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama Guard 3 8B	$0.020	$0.060	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.020	$0.020	8.3	34.7	25.5	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	$0.020	$0.050	11.6	47.6	25.9	16,384	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Nemo	$0.020	$0.040	—	26.4	8.7	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.200	1.9	20.0	19.6	60,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3.1 24B	$0.030	$0.110	21.2	65.9	45.4	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-20b	$0.030	$0.140	77.7	74.8	68.8	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	$0.030	$0.090	12.6	47.3	33.9	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 3 12B	$0.030	$0.100	13.7	59.5	34.9	131,072	Try

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

Compare Providers

R1 Distill Llama 70B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.030

Cheapest Input/M

$0.110

Cheapest Output/M

Chutes

Best Price

Provider Pricing

7 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
C Chutes Best Price	$0.030	$0.110	-
S SambaNova	$0.700	$1.400	-
D DeepInfra	$0.700	$0.800	-
V Vercel	$0.750	$0.990	-
Groq	$0.750	$0.990	-
N Novita	$0.800	$0.800	-
T Together	$2.000	$2.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

16.0 (35th pct)

Coding

11.4 (26th pct)

Math

53.7 (48th pct)

MMLU Pro

79.5 (60th pct)

GPQA

40.2 (17th pct)

LiveCodeBench

26.6 (19th pct)

AIME

67.0 (68th pct)

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