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DeepSeek: R1

deepseek/deepseek-r1

Created Jan 20, 202564,000 context
$0.70/M input tokens$2.50/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

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

Performance for R1

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Apps using R1

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Recent activity on R1

Total usage per day on OpenRouter

Prompt
191M
Reasoning
73.3M
Completion
31.9M

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

Uptime stats for R1

Uptime stats for R1 across all providers

Sample code and API for R1

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ 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.

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.