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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Qwen3.8 Flash

R1 Distill Llama 70B costs from $0.21 per million tokens and Qwen3.8 Flash from $0.18 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .

Verdict

At these prices, R1 Distill Llama 70B costs 1.2× as much as Qwen3.8 Flash per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).

Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.

R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Qwen3.8 Flash: API prices
ModelLowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column.Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokensOutput price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokensThe provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves.For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above.OffersProvidersThe maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut.Observation
Qwen3.8 Flash, Qwenat Alibaba Most expensive offer · $0.275. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. Green background: the most favourable value of each column., most favourable value of the column $0.113$0.382, most favourable value of the columnat DeepInfra, most favourable value of the column$12.51, most favourable value of the columnat Alibaba3224, most favourable value of the column– Cheapest. Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens
R1 Distill Llama 70B, DeepSeekat CloudFerro Most expensive offer · $2.70. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. $0.112, most favourable value of the column$0.503$0.21$14.24at CloudFerro54–

Green background: the most favourable value of each column.

Prices as of Oct 31, 2026, 11:30 PM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.

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