R1 API Pricing
DeepSeek · Mid-tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-01. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.
- Input: $0.70 per 1M tokens
- Output: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 64K
- Arena ELO: 1398 (as of 2026-09-01)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0023 | $0.0023 | $230 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0034 | $0.0034 | $340 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.0100 | $0.0100 | $1000 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0062 | $0.0062 | $625 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0071 | $0.0071 | $710 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0025 | $0.0025 | $255 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0032 | $0.0032 | $315 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.012 | $0.012 | $1.2K |
R1 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Novita (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.70 | $2.50 |
Models comparable to R1
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- o4 Mini (OpenAI) — $1.10 in / $4.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1391
- GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — $0.25 in / $2.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1389
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — $1.00 in / $5.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1413
- GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1414
Common questions about R1 pricing
- How much does R1 cost?
- R1 costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does R1 offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would R1 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, R1 costs about $230 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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