DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

A 70B reasoning model distilled from DeepSeek R1 onto Llama 3.3 70B, with weights under the MIT license.

Params: 70.6B
Context: 131K tokens
Max output: 33K
Released: Jan 2025
License: MIT

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Hosted API price

Cheapest via Novita · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.80 /1M
Output: $0.80 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Novita	$0.80	$0.80	$9.60	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B needs about 46 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 4× RTX 4060 Ti at about $374 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 468M tokens a month on Novita's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 131K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	46 GB84 GB	4× RTX 4060 Ti	$374$461	468M tokens /mo576M tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	83 GB94 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$749	576M tokens /mo936M tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	154 GB186 GB	8× RTX 3090	$1,440$3,283	2B tokens /mo4B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Mar 2026	−17%
GPT-3.5 Turbo OpenAI	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	16K	Sep 2021	−17%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	256K		−17%
Qwen3.5-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.7333	$0.40	$2.40	1M		−8%
GLM-5 Z.AI	$0.7667	$0.60	$1.60	200K		−4%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B This model DeepSeek	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80	131K
GLM-4.7 Z.AI	$0.8667	$0.60	$2.20	205K		+8%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google Cloud	$0.9167	$0.50	$3.00	1M	Jan 2025	+15%
Qwen3.6-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.9167	$0.50	$3.00	1M		+15%
GLM-5.2 Z.AI	$0.95	$0.70	$2.20	1M		+19%
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nvidia	$0.99	$0.66	$2.64	1M	Sep 2025	+24%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts and can do, as published by DeepSeek.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.

Common questions

What is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B good for?

Reasoning work on a dense 70B model. MIT-licensed weights, far lighter to self-host than the 671B R1 it was distilled from, on a single high-memory GPU.

When is DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B not a good fit?

Tool use and image input: it has no function calling or structured output, and takes text only.

What is the cheapest way to run DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Novita charges $0.80 in / $0.80 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 4x RTX 4060 Ti at $374 a month, which costs the same as about 468M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?

Yes. The weights are MIT licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 46 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $374 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.