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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for R1, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Jan '25.
About this model
R1 is an open-weight AI model by DeepSeek. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is R1?
R1 is an AI language model from DeepSeek. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 18.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is R1 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host R1 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.7 per million input tokens and $2.5 per million output tokens.
What is R1 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 70.8%, MMLU-Pro 84.4%, Humanity's Last Exam 9.3%, Long Context Reasoning 52.3%, LiveCodeBench 61.7%, SciCode 35.7%, MATH-500 96.6%, AIME 68.3%, AIME 2025 68%, IFBench 39%, τ²-Bench 11.4%, τ-Bench Banking 6.4%, Terminal-Bench 19.1%, Terminal-Bench Hard 6.1%. It is particularly used for code generation.
Can I self-host R1?
Yes. R1 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.