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title: "DeepSeek: R1 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "DeepSeek: R1: $0.700/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# DeepSeek: R1 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> DeepSeek: R1: $0.700/M in, $2.50/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# R1

DeepSeek · released 2025-01-20

 $1.15 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+33.2** higher and costs **91% less** ($0.105/M against $1.15/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[KAT-Coder-Pro V2](/models/kwaipilot__kat-coder-pro-v2) is cheaper still (54% less) but drops no extended reasoning.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.700 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.50 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 18.6 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 24.6 |
| Agentic | 3.1 |
| LMArena Elo | 1372.7 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 64K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-07-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

DeepSeek R1 is here: 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 in an inference pass....