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MedianThe median 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.
$1.15
Most expensiveThe 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.
$2.36
Offers
13
Providers
7

Cheapest right now

DeepInfra

via Vercel AI GatewayThe provider's published policy: prompts are not used for training.

fp4 · 160k

$0.913 blended / 1M tokens

No change7D
in
$0.50
out
$2.15
Cached input
$0.35
Go to offer Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)via Vercel AI Gateway

Public leaderboards

  • Text Arena, style controlThe series the source publishes by default for text since 16 May 2025: ranks corrected for the style of the answers (style control). #156 of 419Best rank in the source's rank spread, 156th to 182nd, given the confidence intervals of all ranked models. 168th by score. 1,398 1,393 to 1,403Arena Score · 18,524 votes

Source: Arena (opens in a new tab) · Data under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) · CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · scores and ranks as published on 28 Oct 2026; the presentation is ours

R1 costs from $0.913 per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest of 5 comparable offers, at DeepInfra, checked on ; 13 offers are listed.

Listed offers, by price

Comparable offersOther offersSolid steps are comparable offers; dashed steps are the other offers, which are not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive.

Offers not counted in cheapest, median or most expensive (8)

  • $0.92 · FastRouter via FastRouter · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.13 · DeepInfra via Eden AI · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.15 · Martian via Martian · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $1.15 · Novita via Requesty · another route of the same provider
  • $1.26 · DeepInfra via Requesty · another route of the same provider
  • $1.50 · DeepInfra via Eden AI · cannot be designated the cheapest
  • $4.00 · Novita via Requesty · another route of the same provider
  • $4.25 · Fireworks via LMRouter · cannot be designated the cheapest

Price historyThe cheapest offer each day, against the lab's official list price when it publishes one. Each day at 00:00 UTC, the offer the API would have selected as the cheapest, with the same exclusions as /cheapest. Blended price, promotions included.

Cheapest offer and official list price, by day, 30 days
DayCheapest offerOfficial list price
2026-10-02$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-03$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-04$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-05$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-06$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-07$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-08$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-09$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-10$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-11$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-12$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-13$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-14$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-15$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-16$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-17$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-18$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-19$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-20$0.725, NanoGPT–
2026-10-21$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-22$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-23$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-24$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-25$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-26$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-27$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-28$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-29$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-30$0.913, DeepInfra–
2026-10-31$0.913, DeepInfra–

Cheapest offer

Offers

13 of 13 offers

Offers for R1, one row per offer, sorted by blended price.
RankProvider · viaYou buy access through an aggregator: one account and one API that forward your requests to other providers. "Via" names the aggregator; the price is the one it charges you. When "via" says "hosted API", no aggregator is involved: the model belongs to a lab and another provider sells it.Input $/1MOutput $/1MBlended $/1MA single price that mixes input and output: 3 input tokens for 1 output token, per million tokens. It makes offers easy to rank; your real cost depends on your own mix.PrecisionHow finely the model's numbers are stored on the provider's servers. Lower precision (fp8, fp4) is cheaper to run and can slightly change answer quality; "unknown" means the provider doesn't say. ContextThe 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.ConditionsWhat a provider says about how it handles your data and who can sign up: training on prompts, processing region, sign-up requirements. Each comes from the provider's published documents; when nothing is published, it stays unknown.SignalsOffer
1 DeepInfravia Vercel AI Gateway 0.50 2.15 0.913 fp4 160k United States
Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)
2 FastRouter 0.50 2.18 0.92  – 164k Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at FastRouter (opens in a new tab)
3 DeepInfravia Eden AI 0.70 2.40 1.13  – 164k United States Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Eden AI (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
4 Novita 0.70 2.50 1.15  – 64k
See pricing at Novita (opens in a new tab)
5 Novitavia Hugging Face 0.70 2.50 1.15  fp8 64k
See pricing at Hugging Face (opens in a new tab)
6 Martian 0.70 2.50 1.15  – – worldwide Unverified. Neither seller nor price found on its page for 72 hours: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at Martian (opens in a new tab)
7 Novitavia Requesty 0.70 2.50 1.15  – 64k Fee 5%: Requesty adds a 5% markup (read on requesty.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at Requesty (opens in a new tab)
8 DeepInfravia Requesty 0.85 2.50 1.26  – 64k United States Fee 5%: Requesty adds a 5% markup (read on requesty.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at Requesty (opens in a new tab)
9 DeepInfravia Eden AI 1.00 3.00 1.50  – 41k United States Unverified. No public page for this offer: listed, not designated cheapest
: Eden AI (opens in a new tab). No public price page for this model
10 Amazon Bedrockvia Vercel AI Gateway 1.35 5.40 2.36  – 128k
Go to offer at Vercel AI Gateway (opens in a new tab)
11 Neosantara 1.35 5.40 2.36  – 128k Singapore, Indonesia, United States
See pricing at Neosantara (opens in a new tab)
12 Novitavia Requesty 4.00 4.00 4.00  fp8 64k Fee 5%: Requesty adds a 5% markup (read on requesty.ai/pricing on Oct 30). Offers are ranked with this fee included.
Go to offer at Requesty (opens in a new tab)
13 Fireworksvia LMRouter 3.00 8.00 4.25  – 160k United States Unverified. The source page shows one price per model, not this seller's: listed, not designated cheapest
See pricing at LMRouter (opens in a new tab)

No training on promptsPrompts may be used for trainingTraining terms not published

backend not named. The router bills this price itself without naming who serves the model.

Blended = (3 × input + output) / 4, per million tokens. Prices in USD, converted at the ECB rate when the provider bills in another currency.

Method

Monthly cost for your workload

Computed by the API for the three cheapest offers, per 30-day month.
  1. DeepInfra$62.25per month
  2. Novita$79.50per month+$17.25 vs the cheapest
  3. Amazon Bedrock$162.00per month+$99.75 vs the cheapest

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