DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is DeepSeek's language model with a 131K context window, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.09 / 1M input and $0.09 / 1M output. A 1.5B Qwen-based model distilled from DeepSeek R1's reasoning chains, offering chain-of-thought capabilities in an extremely compact form factor.
Specifications
Canonical IDdeepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorDeepSeekDeepSeek
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters1.5B
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
Math Index
#150
MMLU-Pro
#332
GPQA
#538
HLE
#544
LiveCodeBench
#320
AIME
#107
IFBench
#426
Time to First Token
#112
SciCode
#521
MATH-500
#146
AIME 2025
#213
LCR
#437
Output TPS
#358

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1p5b
$0.1$0.1
Nscale logo
Nscale
nscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
$0.09$0.09

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 4 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
Standard_NV4ads_V710_v5AzureAMD Radeon Pro V710 (24GB)4 GB$0.333/hr
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hr
7 more instances can run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera164K——Available
DeepSeek R1 528164K$0.200$0.250Deprecated
DeepSeek R11.0M$0.190$0.380Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B131K$0.150$0.150Available
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B131K$0.200$0.375Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B—131K$0.090$0.090Current
DeepSeek R1 528 Turbo—33K$1.00$3.00Available
DeepSeek R1 528B—128K——Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 671B—131K$0.800$0.800Available
DeepSeek R1 8B—66K$0.100$0.200Available
DeepSeek R1 Basic—164K$0.550$2.19Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1p5b
deepseek-llm-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1p5b
nscale/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B