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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B — Specifiche

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

Sviluppatore DeepSeek
Tipo LLM (densa, per ragionamento)
Modalità Testo → Testo
Parametri 70B
Finestra contestuale 128K
Licenza MIT (open)
Pesi aperti
Pubblicato 2025
Prezzo dell’input $0.80 /1M
Prezzo dell’output $0.80 /1M
Provider API DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama

Esegui localmente

VRAM (4-bit) ~40 GB
GPU minima 2× RTX 4090 / 1× GPU da 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

Input (per ogni milione di token)$0.800
Output (per ogni milione di token)$0.800
Rapporto output/input
Combinato (4:1 in:out)$0.800 per 1 milione di token

What DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B costs per month

Spesa mensile reale con un mix input-to-output 4:1 — il rapporto effettivamente prodotto da un tipico carico di lavoro basato su chat o RAG.

Carico di lavoroToken/meseCosto/mese
Progetto secondario 1 milione in ingresso / 0,25 milioni in uscita $1.00
Piccolo team 20 milioni in ingresso / 5 milioni in uscita $20
Produzione 200 milioni in ingresso / 50 milioni in uscita $200

Calcola i tuoi numeri personalizzati nel Calcolatore dei costi delle API per l'IA.

Cheaper alternatives to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

ModelloCosto combinato ($/1 milione)Risparmi
Mistral 7B aperta $0.0220 97% cheaper
Llama 3.1 8B aperta $0.0220 97% cheaper
Mistral NeMo 12B aperta $0.0240 97% cheaper

Eseguirlo in autonomia o pagare l’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 calcolatore self-hosting vs API calcola il punto di pareggio in base al tuo volume di token.

Domande frequenti

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: Prezzi dell'API DeepSeek.

I prezzi indicati sono le tariffe ufficiali pubblicate per l'API principale del modello e vengono aggiornati man mano che i fornitori li modificano. Sconti per volumi elevati, elaborazione batch e input memorizzati nella cache non sono inclusi. Confronta tutti i modelli fianco a fianco nel Database di modelli IA o il Classifica LLM.

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