R1 0528
· verified October 13, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index13.1 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2025-05-28
Context window164K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.5 / $2.15 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.5/$2.15 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed May 28, 2025
In one line
R1 0528 by DeepSeek, measured by Artificial Analysis at 13.1 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “May 28th update to the [original DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1) Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens.”
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