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R1 0528
Scores reviewed 2026-06-27Prices checked 2026-10-25DeepSeek
- OpenRouter
- deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528
- Context
- 164K
- Price per 1M
- $0.5 in / $2.15 out
- Tooling
- 2/5
- Deploy
- Cloud API
Monthly cost, worked example
| Input | 667,000 tokens × $0.5 per 1M | $0.33 |
|---|---|---|
| Output | 333,500 tokens × $2.15 per 1M | $0.72 |
| Total | ~$1.05/mo |
667 requests a month at 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, about 1M tokens. The recommender uses the same assumption when you don't give your own usage.
Best for
- Writing and editing code
- Complex reasoning and analysis
- Cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads
Skip if
- You need heavy tool calling or agents
Capability scores
Tool calling2/5
Tooling (1-5): how reliably the model calls tools and follows multi-step instructions. Editorial score from LMFinder, not a benchmark.
Multi-step reasoning5/5
Specifications
- Context window
- 164K tokens
- VRAM
- N/A (cloud-hosted)
- License
- mit
- Pricing
- $0.5 in / $2.15 out per 1M
- Deployment
- Cloud API
- Docs
- Model docs ↗
Our take
R1 0528 from DeepSeek offers a 164K-token context window and is well-suited to multi-step reasoning, coding. Pricing is $0.5 in / $2.15 out per 1M, billed per token through the provider API.
Watch for the trade-offs: tool calling is limited.
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