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R1 Distill Llama 70B Pricing

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R1 Distill Llama 70B from DeepSeek costs $0.700 per 1 million input tokens and $0.800 per 1 million output tokens as of June 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 131,072-token context window (approximately 98,304 words) with a 16K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0007 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0070.

R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.700 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.800 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio1.1×
Context window131,072 tokens (~98,304 words)
Maximum output16,384 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0007
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on Llama-3. 3-70B-Instruct, using outputs from DeepSeek R1.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.700

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.800

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

131K tokens

max 16K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.000933$0.00032
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.00233$0.0008
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.0035$0.0012
100K token document100,000$0.07$0.024

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Affordable at $0.70/1M input tokens
  • Step-by-step chain-of-thought reasoning
  • Strong general-purpose performance

Limitations

  • Higher latency; reasoning tokens add to output cost
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

Math and science problems
Complex code generation and debugging
Multi-step logical analysis
Research assistance

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