DeepSeek: R1 (free)

deepseek/deepseek-r1:free

Created Jan 20, 2025163,840 context
$0/M input tokens$0/M output tokens

DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with OpenAI o1, but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass.

Fully open-source model & technical report.

MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely!

Providers for R1 (free)

OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.

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Apps using R1 (free)

Top public apps this week using this model

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Recent activity on R1 (free)

Tokens processed per day

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Uptime stats for R1 (free)

Uptime stats for R1 (free) across all providers

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it.

Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

Sample code and API for R1 (free)

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 300+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  extra_headers={
    "HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
    "X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
  },
  extra_body={},
  model="deepseek/deepseek-r1:free",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.

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