R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing and routing profile
R1 Distill Llama 70B from DeepSeek lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens, with a 8,192-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Reasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.488 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.92 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $6.80 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for R1 Distill Llama 70B. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below R1 Distill Llama 70B that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 Euryale 70B | $0.65 / $0.75 | 17% |
| Skyfall 36B V2 | $0.55 / $0.80 | 26% |
| UnslopNemo 12B | $0.40 / $0.40 | 50% |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | $0.351 / $0.555 | 52% |
| Qwen Plus 0728 | $0.26 / $0.78 | 57% |
| Qwen-Plus | $0.26 / $0.78 | 57% |
Questions
How much does R1 Distill Llama 70B cost?
R1 Distill Llama 70B lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.92 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of R1 Distill Llama 70B?
8,192 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace R1 Distill Llama 70B?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match R1 Distill Llama 70B on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.