DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek's R1 Distill Llama 70B shows impressive maths performance but limited general reasoning and coding scores, and as a DeepSeek product it carries a regional accessibility penalty that reduces its appeal for Western business deployments.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, using outputs from DeepSeek R1. The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across multiple benchmarks, including: - AIME 2024 pass@1: 70.0
- MATH-500 pass@1: 94.5
- CodeForces Rating: 1633 The model leverages fine-tuning from DeepSeek R1's outputs, enabling competitive performance comparable to larger frontier models.
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Llama3 |
| Instruct Type | deepseek-r1 |
| Parameters | 70B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.70 | $0.000700 |
| Output | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
