R1 Distill Llama 70B API Pricing
DeepSeek · Budget · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-01. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
R1 Distill Llama 70B has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 98th cheapest of 142 Budget models. Only one host, Novita, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.80 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.80 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 8K
R1 Distill Llama 70B market position
On blended price ($0.800 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 31% of Budget models: 98th cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 65% of priced text models in the catalogue: 98th cheapest of 281.
R1 Distill Llama 70B licence, size and capabilities
R1 Distill Llama 70B is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 70B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Code. Filling its 8K context window once costs $0.0064 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $160 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $224 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $896 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $344 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $400 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $168 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $216 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $720 |
R1 Distill Llama 70B 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 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Novita is the only host with a published rate, $0.80 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Novita (the price shown above) — bf16 | $0.80 | $0.80 |
R1 Distill Llama 70B price history
R1 Distill Llama 70B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.80 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to R1 Distill Llama 70B
- Next cheaper Budget model: DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) at $0.797 blended, under 1% less.
- Next more expensive: MiniMax-01 (MiniMax) at $0.830 blended, 4% more.
Common questions about R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing
- How much does R1 Distill Llama 70B cost?
- R1 Distill Llama 70B costs $0.80 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does R1 Distill Llama 70B offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would R1 Distill Llama 70B cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, R1 Distill Llama 70B costs about $160 at list prices.
- Has the price of R1 Distill Llama 70B changed?
- R1 Distill Llama 70B has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.80 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
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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