DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
DeprecatedDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is DeepSeek's language model with a 131K context window, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.09 / 1M input and $0.09 / 1M output. A 1.5B Qwen-based model distilled from DeepSeek R1's reasoning chains, offering chain-of-thought capabilities in an extremely compact form factor.
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #490 |
| Math Index | #213 |
| MMLU-Pro | #332 |
| GPQA | #536 |
| HLE | #520 |
| LiveCodeBench | #320 |
| AIME | #107 |
| IFBench | #425 |
| Time to First Token | #97 |
| SciCode | #498 |
| MATH-500 | #146 |
| AIME 2025 | #213 |
| LCR | #413 |
| Output TPS | #335 |
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.1 | $0.1 | |
| $0.09 | $0.09 | |
| $0.18 | $0.18 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 4 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NV4as_v4 |  Azure | AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 | 16 GB | $0.233/hr | ||
| Standard_NV4ads_V710_v5 | Azure | AMD Radeon Pro V710 (24GB) | 4 GB | $0.333/hr | ||
| g5g.xlarge |  AWS | T4g | 16 GB | $0.420/hr | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera | 164K | — | — | Available | |
| DeepSeek R1 528 | 164K | $0.200 | $0.250 | Deprecated | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 131K | $0.150 | $0.150 | Available | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | 131K | $0.200 | $0.375 | Deprecated | |
| DeepSeek R1 | 164K | $0.280 | $0.400 | Deprecated | |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | — | 131K | $0.090 | $0.090 | Current |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | — | 131K | $0.070 | $0.070 | Deprecated |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | — | 131K | $0.025 | $0.025 | Available |
| DeepSeek R1 528 Turbo | — | 33K | $1.00 | $3.00 | Available |
| DeepSeek R1 528B | — | 128K | $0.550 | $2.19 | Deprecated |
| DeepSeek R1 671B | — | 131K | $0.800 | $0.800 | Available |