TNG: DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera
TNG's DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera is a well-priced model with strong math and coding benchmarks and impressive GPQA scores, offering solid reasoning capability at a very competitive price point — a good option for cost-conscious teams needing capable coding and content support.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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DeepSeek-TNG-R1T2-Chimera is the second-generation Chimera model from TNG Tech. It is a 671 B-parameter mixture-of-experts text-generation model assembled from DeepSeek-AI’s R1-0528, R1, and V3-0324 checkpoints with an Assembly-of-Experts merge. The tri-parent design yields strong reasoning performance while running roughly 20 % faster than the original R1 and more than 2× faster than R1-0528 under vLLM, giving a favorable cost-to-intelligence trade-off. The checkpoint supports contexts up to 60 k tokens in standard use (tested to ~130 k) and maintains consistent token behaviour, making it suitable for long-context analysis, dialogue and other open-ended generation tasks.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | DeepSeek |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $0.85 | $0.000850 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
