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DeepSeek R1 8B

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DeepSeek R1 8B is DeepSeek's language model with a 66K context window and up to 16K output tokens, starting at $0.1 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. An 8B-parameter distillation of DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model, providing accessible chain-of-thought capabilities in a smaller footprint.
Specifications
Canonical IDdeepseek-r1-8b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorDeepSeekDeepSeek
Providers
Context Window66K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters8B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
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
LlamaGate
llamagate/deepseek-r1-8b
$0.1$0.2

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host DeepSeek R1 8B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 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
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hr
7 more instances can run DeepSeek R1 8B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera164K——Available
DeepSeek R1 528164K$0.200$0.250Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B131K$0.150$0.150Available
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B131K$0.200$0.375Deprecated
DeepSeek R1164K$0.280$0.400Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 8B—66K$0.100$0.200Current
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B—131K$0.070$0.070Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B—131K$0.025$0.025Available
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B—131K$0.090$0.090Deprecated
DeepSeek R1 528 Turbo—33K$1.00$3.00Available
DeepSeek R1 528B—128K——Deprecated

Model IDs

deepseek-r1-8b
llamagate/deepseek-r1-8b