Intelligence
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General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedDeepSeek: R1 is a budget-priced text-first model from DeepSeek with partial runtime data, standard context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / agent workflows.
Benchmark blend
Dev workflow signal
Standard
Budget tier
DeepSeek: R1 currently reads as a budget text-first option with standard context and a partially published runtime profile.
Decision Strip
Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.
General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedLatency data is partial.
UnavailableHow much prompt and task state can stay in view.
Competitive$5.40 output / 1M
EfficientEditorial Profile
Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.
DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active in an inference pass....
DeepSeek text-first profile
Long-context research / Agent workflows with standard context and partially published runtime.
Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.
The available source data suggests a balanced profile rather than one dominant edge.
Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.
Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.
Current metadata points to a text-first profile rather than a broad multimodal one.
Context window is more comfortable for focused tasks than extremely long sessions.
Focused chat, retrieval-augmented flows, and narrower production tasks.
Benchmarks
Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.
Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.
Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.
Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.
Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.
Specs & Pricing
Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.
This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.
Metadata
Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.