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DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B API Pricing
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B costs $0.800 per 1M input tokens and $0.800 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 8K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.800
Output / 1M tokens
$0.800
Context window
8K
Max output
8K
What would DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $9.60 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $40.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $108.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $33.60 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on [Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct), using outputs from [DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1). The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across...
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