Analysis Summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a text-only distilled reasoning model with an 8K context window. Its listed pricing is relatively low, which supports experimentation and repeated use for short, well-defined prompts. The supplied intelligence result provides some evidence of reasoning capability, but there are no detailed coding, agentic, instruction-following, or tool-use measurements for this listing.
The model is best suited to concise analytical tasks, focused code questions, and internal experimentation where context requirements are small. An 8K window is restrictive for long documents, complex briefs, repositories, and multi-step agent workflows. Teams should validate answer consistency and latency on their own prompts before relying on it in client production. It can be a cost-conscious specialist, but its narrow context and limited evidence make it unsuitable as a broad agency default.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B provides a low-cost reasoning-oriented profile, but its 8K context window and lack of detailed technical or tool-use data restrict it to focused tasks.
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DFO Verdict
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B provides a low-cost reasoning-oriented profile, but its 8K context window and lack of detailed technical or tool-use data restrict it to focused tasks.
How DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B compares
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ranks #269 of 420 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 8K-token context window is larger than 22% of the models we list. At $0.80 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 30% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
| Output | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
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Talk to our teamAbout DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B
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..
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Frequently asked questions about DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B
How much does DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B cost?
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B costs $0.80 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B?
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B has a context window of 8,192 tokens (8K).
Who created DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B?
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is developed by DeepSeek and was released on January 23, 2025.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: August 10, 2026 8:38 pm