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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for R1 Distill Llama 70B, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
For the same budget, R1 Distill Llama 70B delivers 2.1 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
R1 Distill Llama 70B is an open-weight AI model by DeepSeek. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is R1 Distill Llama 70B?
R1 Distill Llama 70B is an AI language model from DeepSeek. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 9.9 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is R1 Distill Llama 70B free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host R1 Distill Llama 70B and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.8 per million input tokens and $0.8 per million output tokens.
What is R1 Distill Llama 70B good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 40.2%, MMLU-Pro 79.5%, Humanity's Last Exam 6.1%, Long Context Reasoning 11%, LiveCodeBench 26.6%, SciCode 31.3%, MATH-500 93.5%, AIME 67%, AIME 2025 53.7%, IFBench 27.6%, τ²-Bench 21.9%, Terminal-Bench Hard 1.5%. It is particularly used for mathematical reasoning.
Can I self-host R1 Distill Llama 70B?
Yes. R1 Distill Llama 70B has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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