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R1 Distill Llama 70B

by DeepSeek · deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b · #159 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

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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Pricing

Input

$0.80

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.80

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.80

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for R1 Distill Llama 70B (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.80$0.0824
50%$0.80$0.0824−0%
90%$0.80$0.0824−0%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.00064$0.64
Document summary8,0001,000$0.0072$7.20
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.0256$25.60
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.124$124.00

Performance

Intelligence Index

9.9

AA composite quality

Coding Index

Math Index

53.7

Agentic Index

Output speed

34 tok/s

median

Time to first token

0.59s

median

Time to first answer

60.07s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
MMLU-Pro79.5%
GPQA Diamond40.2%
Humanity's Last Exam6.1%
LiveCodeBench26.6%
SciCode31.3%
MATH-50093.5%
AIME67.0%
AIME 202553.7%
IFBench27.6%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)11.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard1.5%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)21.9%

Specs

Context window

8K

tokens

Max output

8K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Llama3