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MODEL PROOF # R1 0528 DeepSeek · 28 May 2025 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.920** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Serving precision differs between offers. [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 63.1 points · 41% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) is a further stored option with these losses: 33K → 16K max output Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,427.9 ± 5.66 · 18,059 votes Context window 163.84K Maximum output 32.77K Input modalities text Output modalities text Published input price $0.500 / 1M tokens Published output price $2.18 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from SiliconFlow: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known. Cheaper right now: $0.913/M at DeepInfra — 4-bit It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.500 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $2.18 /M | | Cached input | Unknown /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.500/M from SiliconFlow. 4 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller SiliconFlow siliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 163,840 tokens Output limit 147,456 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.35% | Input $0.500 | Output $2.18 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.02% | | Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp4 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.350 Context limit 163,840 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.500 | Output $2.15 | Precision fp4 | Uptime (1d) 99.95% | | Seller StreamLake streamlake Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 32,000 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.89% | Input $0.571 | Output $2.29 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.44% | | Seller Novita novita/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.350 Context limit 163,840 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.700 | Output $2.50 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.91% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1427.9 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - Data visualisation #56 1190 - SVG #74 1038 - 3D #77 1119 - Websites #80 1156 - Code categories #81 1144 - UI components #84 1109 - Game development #85 1110 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 163K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 32K | | Input modes | text | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | always on | | Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | May 28th update to the [original DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1) Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active... ## Questions this page answers What does R1 0528 cost? $0.500/M in, $2.18/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does R1 0528 have an independent quality score? R1 0528 has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats R1 0528? MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for R1 0528? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. Is the cheapest R1 0528 endpoint the same product? Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.500/M from SiliconFlow. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options DeepSeek: R1 0528. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [Gemma 4 31B](/models/google__gemma-4-31b-it/) - Nearby on the capability axis [GLM 4.5](/models/z-ai__glm-4.5/) - Same vendor [DeepSeek V3.2](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v3.2/) - DeepSeek models [DeepSeek](/providers/deepseek/) - Where this model appears [effort](/effort/) - Nearby on the capability axis [MiMo-V2.5](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.5/) - Same vendor [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash/) - Where this model appears [spreads](/spreads/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Grok 4.6](/models/x-ai__grok-4.6/) - Same vendor [DeepSeek V3.2 Exp](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v3.2-exp/) - Where this model appears [traps](/traps/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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