DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 8B

deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b

Created Feb 7, 202532,000 context

$0.04/M input tokens$0.04/M output tokens

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is a distilled large language model based on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, using outputs from DeepSeek R1. The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across multiple benchmarks, including:

AIME 2024 pass@1: 50.4
MATH-500 pass@1: 89.1
CodeForces Rating: 1205

The model leverages fine-tuning from DeepSeek R1's outputs, enabling competitive performance comparable to larger frontier models.

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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-distill-llama-8b",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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