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DeepSeek R1

by DeepSeekopen weights
DeepSeek R1 family
Parameters
671B
Context window
64K tokens
Released
2025-01-20
Input price / 1M tok
$0.55
Output price / 1M tok
$2.19
Modality
text

About DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek's open reasoning model — an open-weight competitor to OpenAI's o1. Trained with pure reinforcement learning on math/code tasks. Full reasoning trace visible in outputs. Sparked the 2025 conversation about efficient reasoning training.

Strengths

  • Open weights
  • o1-competitive reasoning benchmarks
  • Cheap
  • Visible chain-of-thought

Weaknesses

  • No tools
  • Verbose reasoning eats output tokens
  • Text-only

Best for

MathResearchHard debugging
Vendor page →HuggingFace →Paper / release →