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R1 vs DeepSeek V3

Capability, benchmark, and verified hosting price comparison.

Quick verdict

Benchmark wins
R1— leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks
Cheapest hosting
DeepSeek V3— $0.477 vs $1.150 / 1M blended tokens
Context window
DeepSeek V3— 65,536 tokens vs 64,000

Derived from public benchmarks and verified hosting prices. Benchmark wins count only where both models have a score; direction respects each benchmark’s higher-is-better flag.

R1

by DeepSeek · deepseek-r1

Context
64,000 tokens
Open weight
Yes
License
MIT
Params
671.0B
Modalities
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DeepSeek V3

by DeepSeek AI · DeepSeek

Context
65,536 tokens
Open weight
Yes
License
DeepSeek License v1.0
Params
671.0B
Modalities
text

Benchmarks

BenchmarkR1DeepSeek V3
HumanEval0.8910.825
MMLU0.9030.887

Cheapest verified hosting

R1 cheapest
DeepSeek
$1.150/ 1M tokens (blended)
Input
$0.700
Output
$2.500
Context
64,000 tok
Latency p50
920 ms
DeepSeek V3 cheapest
DeepSeek
$0.477/ 1M tokens (blended)
Input
$0.270
Output
$1.100
Context
65,536 tok
Latency p50
480 ms