# DeepSeek-R1 Release

- ⚡ Performance on par with OpenAI-o1

- 📖 Fully open-source model & technical report

- 🏆 Code and models are released under the MIT License: Distill & commercialize freely!

- 🌐 Website & API are live now! Try DeepThink at [chat.deepseek.com](https://chat.deepseek.com) today!

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- 🔥 Bonus: Open-Source Distilled Models!

- 🔬 Distilled from DeepSeek-R1, 6 small models fully open-sourced

- 📏 32B & 70B models on par with OpenAI-o1-mini

- 🤝 Empowering the open-source community

- 🌍 Pushing the boundaries of **open AI**!

![](https://cdn.deepseek.com/api-docs/deepseek_r1_benchmark_table.png)

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- 📜 License Update!

- 🔄 DeepSeek-R1 is now MIT licensed for clear open access

- 🔓 Open for the community to leverage model weights & outputs

- 🛠️ API outputs can now be used for fine-tuning & distillation

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- 🛠️ DeepSeek-R1: Technical Highlights

- 📈 Large-scale RL in post-training

- 🏆 Significant performance boost with minimal labeled data

- 🔢 Math, code, and reasoning tasks on par with OpenAI-o1

- 📄 More details: <https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf>

![](https://cdn.deepseek.com/api-docs/deepseek_r1_paper.png)

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- 🌐 API Access & Pricing

- ⚙️ Use DeepSeek-R1 by setting model=deepseek-reasoner

- 💰 $0.14 / million input tokens (cache hit)

- 💰 $0.55 / million input tokens (cache miss)

- 💰 $2.19 / million output tokens

- 📖 API guide: [Thinking Mode guide](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/thinking_mode.md)

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