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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B — Especificaciones

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Desarrollador DeepSeek
Tipo LLM (denso, razonamiento)
Modalidad Texto → Texto
Parámetros 70B
Ventana de contexto 128 K
Licencia MIT (abierto)
Pesos abiertos
Lanzado 2025
Precio de entrada $0.80 /1M
Precio de salida $0.80 /1M
Proveedores de API DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama

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VRAM (4 bits) ~40 GB
GPU mínima 2× RTX 4090 / 1× GPU de 48 GB

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What is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?

This is DeepSeek R1’s reasoning distilled into a 70B Llama base — an attempt to carry
R1’s step-by-step chain-of-thought behaviour onto hardware a single team can actually own.
It is MIT-licensed with a 128K context, needs about 40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit, and runs on two
RTX 4090s or one 48 GB card.

That hardware line is the whole point. Full DeepSeek R1 needs roughly 400 GB at the same
quantisation; this distill needs a tenth of that, which moves it from “rent a server” to
“buy a workstation”. The trade is real — a distill inherits the teacher’s reasoning style
more faithfully than its raw capability, so expect it to show its working well but to fall
short of R1 on the hardest problems. Where it earns its place is in workloads that must stay
on-premises: regulated data, air-gapped environments, or products whose margins cannot
absorb per-token API pricing at volume. At $0.80 for both input and output it is also
unusually simple to budget, since the input/output ratio is 1:1 and generation-heavy
workloads cost no more than prompt-heavy ones.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Entrada (por cada millón de tokens)$0.800
Salida (por cada millón de tokens)$0.800
Relación salida/entrada
Combinada (4:1 entrada:salida)$0.800 por 1 millón de tokens

What DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B costs per month

Gasto mensual real con una mezcla entrada:salida de 4:1, es decir, la proporción que realmente genera una carga de trabajo típica de chat o RAG.

Carga de trabajoTokens/mesCoste mensual
Proyecto secundario 1 millón de tokens de entrada / 0,25 millones de tokens de salida $1.00
Pequeño equipo 20 millones de tokens de entrada / 5 millones de tokens de salida $20
Producción 200 millones de tokens de entrada / 50 millones de tokens de salida $200

Calcule sus propios números en la Calculadora de costos de API de IA.

Cheaper alternatives to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

ModeloDólares por millón combinadosUsted ahorra
Mistral 7B abierta $0.0220 97% cheaper
Llama 3.1 8B abierta $0.0220 97% cheaper
Mistral NeMo 12B abierta $0.0240 97% cheaper

¿Autoalojarlo o pagar por la API?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (2× RTX 4090 / 1× 48GB). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the calculadora de autohospedaje frente a API calcula el punto de equilibrio para su volumen de tokens.

Preguntas frecuentes

How much does DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B cost per 1M tokens?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B costs $0.800 per 1M input tokens and $0.800 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.800 per 1M tokens.

How much does DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $20 on DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $1.00.

What is a cheaper alternative to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?

Mistral 7B is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.0220 per 1M blended — about 97% less than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.

Can I run DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B locally?

Yes. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is open-weight and needs about ~40 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (2× RTX 4090 / 1× 48GB).

Why does DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B charges 1× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

See every DeepSeek model priced side by side: Precios de la API de DeepSeek.

Los precios corresponden a las tarifas oficiales publicadas para la API principal del modelo y se revisan periódicamente conforme los proveedores los actualicen. No incluyen descuentos por volumen, procesamiento por lotes ni entradas en caché. Compare todos los modelos uno al lado del otro en la Base de datos de modelos de IA o el Clasificación de modelos de lenguaje grande (LLM).

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