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DeepSeek: R1

deepseek/deepseek-r1:free

Model weights

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(opens in new tab).

MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely!

Modalities

Price

Free

Context

164K

Released

Jan 20, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Jul 2024

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Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

About DeepSeek: R1

OpenRouter makes DeepSeek: R1 available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID deepseek/deepseek-r1.

DeepSeek: R1 accepts text and returns text. It has a 163,840-token context window.

It was released on January 20, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is July 31, 2024.

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Frequently asked questions

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!

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for R1 is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

R1 has a 163,840 token context window.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and 9 more are other text models from DeepSeek.

R1 was released on January 20, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is July 31, 2024.