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DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs OpenAI: o1 ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs OpenAI: o1 — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B profile OpenAI: o1 profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B — DeepSeek
Quality
#41 of 65
63based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
—
Output tokens per second
Price
#240 of 504
$0.80
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.80 · Out $0.80
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#541 of 550
8k
tokens (~13 pages)
OpenAI: o1 — OpenAI
Quality
#28 of 65
69based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#109 of 356
87.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#490 of 504
$26.25
Blended per 1M tokens
In $15.00 · Out $60.00
Cache hit price
#384 of 384
$7.50
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#395 of 550
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B scores 63 and OpenAI: o1 scores 69 — a 7-point lead for OpenAI: o1. They share 10 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ahead on 0 and OpenAI: o1 ahead on 10.

Blended pricing is $0.80 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and $26.25 for OpenAI: o1 — DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is about 32.8× cheaper.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8k tokens of context against 200k.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: o1 is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 8 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: o1
Known Good Index 63 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.80 $26.25
Output tok/s — 87
Context window 8k 200k
Providers 1 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: o1
Known Good Index 63 69
Mathematics Index 71 85
Reasoning Index 59 61
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B · marker = OpenAI: o1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 77
Mock AIME 2024–2551 / 73
MATH Level 590 / 95
LiveBench54 / 76
LiveBench Coding52 / 70
LiveBench Data Analysis56 / 65
LiveBench Instruction Following70 / 82
LiveBench Language24 / 65
LiveBench Mathematics58 / 80
LiveBench Reasoning68 / 92

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B / OpenAI: o1. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B leads on 0 of 10, OpenAI: o1 on 10.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: o1
Input $/1M $0.80 $15.00
Output $/1M $0.80 $60.00
Blended $/1M $0.80 $26.25
Cache read $/1M — $7.500
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: o1
Context window 8k 200k
Max output tokens 7k 100k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: o1
Output tokens/s — 87
Time to first token — 3.7s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B blendedDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B tok/s OpenAI: o1 blendedOpenAI: o1 tok/s
Novita $0.80 24 — —
OpenAI · first party — — $26.25 —

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0) Full attribution →