DeepSeek · 2025-05-28
R1 0528 pricing
May 28th update to the original DeepSeek R1 Performance on par with OpenAI o1, but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What R1 0528 costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $48.30 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $644 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $325 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | ibm-granite | $0.06 | $0.15 | $0.015 | 131K | $4.50 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other DeepSeek models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1.05M | $27.90 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.045 | $0.50 | $0.006 | 1.05M | $8.03 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.216 | $0.647 | $0.0069 | 1.05M | $17.46 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | $1.32 | $3.96 | $0.044 | 1.05M | $107 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | $0.119 | $0.238 | $0.024 | 1.05M | $8.21 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | $0.091 | $0.182 | $0.018 | 1.05M | $6.28 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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R1 0528: questions
How much does R1 0528 cost?
$0.50 per 1M input tokens and $2.15 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.35. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0016.
What is R1 0528’s context window?
163,840 tokens, with up to 32,768 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to R1 0528?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches R1 0528’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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