DeepSeek R1 8B API Pricing

DeepSeek R1 8B pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What DeepSeek R1 8B costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

DeepSeek R1 8B features

• Function calling
• Structured output
• Reasoning

Use DeepSeek R1 8B with LiteLLM

Call DeepSeek R1 8B through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="llamagate/deepseek-r1-8b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: deepseek-r1-8b
    litellm_params:
      model: llamagate/deepseek-r1-8b
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-r1-8b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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