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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B

Distilled

Smallest R1 distill — Llama 3.1 8B base. Tradeoff: limited reasoning depth vs the larger distills.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is a reasoning AI model from DeepSeek. It costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens (blended $0.109/M), with a 128K-token context window.

Released Jan 2025Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$0.070/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.200/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$0.109/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
128K
128,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • Smallest R1 distill
  • Edge-friendly
  • Open weights
Typical use cases
  • Edge reasoning experiments
  • Distillation research
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU67%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
GPQA Diamond42%
Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".
MATH75%
High-school competition math problems.
HumanEval65%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B cost?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B costs $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.200 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.109 per million tokens.

What is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B's context window?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B supports up to 128K tokens of context (128,000 tokens).

What is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B best for?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is well suited to Smallest R1 distill, Edge-friendly and Open weights.

Who makes DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8B is developed and served by DeepSeek. It was released in Jan 2025.