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DeepSeek R1 Turbo

Novita AI's speed-optimized deployment of DeepSeek R1.

Params
671B, 37B active
Context
64K tokens
License
MIT
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Hosted API price

Cheapest via Novita · per 1M tokens

USD
Input
$0.70 /1M
Output
$2.50 /1M
Hosted by
Novita 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.

Transparency and funding

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

Every provider serving DeepSeek R1 Turbo, 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 logo Novita $0.70 $2.50 $12.00 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 Turbo needs about 373 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× A100 at about $9,850 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 10B 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 Turbo 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) Cost /mo Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4 373 GB Nvidia logo 8× A100 $9,850 10B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8 674 GB Nvidia logo 8× RTX PRO 6000 $12,614 13B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16 1,346 GB Nvidia logo 8× B300 $45,446 45B 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 Turbo by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest DeepSeek R1 Turbo per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model Blended /1M Input /1M Output /1M Context Cutoff vs DeepSeek R1 Turbo
Google Cloud Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google Cloud $0.9167 $0.50 $3.00 1M Jan 2025 −8%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3.6-Plus Alibaba Cloud $0.9167 $0.50 $3.00 1M −8%
Z.AI GLM-5.2 Z.AI $0.95 $0.70 $2.20 1M −5%
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nvidia $0.99 $0.66 $2.64 1M Sep 2025 −1%
DeepSeek DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek $1.00 $0.70 $2.50 128K 0%
DeepSeek DeepSeek R1 Turbo This model DeepSeek $1.00 $0.70 $2.50 64K
Meta Llama 3 70B Meta $1.00 $0.65 $2.75 8K Dec 2023 0%
Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking Alibaba Cloud $1.00 $0.40 $4.00 262K 0%
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI $1.0333 $0.60 $3.20 262K +3%
xAI Grok Build 0.1 xAI $1.1667 $1.00 $2.00 256K +17%
Cohere Command A+ Cohere $1.20 $0.80 $3.20 128K +20%

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.

Capabilities

What DeepSeek R1 Turbo 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 Turbo good for?

Reasoning work through Novita AI's own build of DeepSeek R1, which it says is tuned for speed. The same MIT-licensed weights as standard R1, and the same multi-GPU node to run them yourself.

When is DeepSeek R1 Turbo not a good fit?

Long-context work: its window is shorter than standard R1's. No function calling or structured output, and it is text only.

What is the cheapest way to run DeepSeek R1 Turbo?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Novita charges $0.70 in / $2.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 8x A100 at $9,850 a month, which costs the same as about 10B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host DeepSeek R1 Turbo?

Yes. The weights are MIT licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 373 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $9,850 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.

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