DeepSeek R1 review, price and benchmarks (2026)

legacy free open-weights reasoning

Provider

Statuslegacy

AA Intelligence Index20.1 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

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Context windown/a

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API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessOpen weights

In one line

The January 2025 release that shocked the market by open-sourcing o1-class reasoning. Historic; superseded.

Coding42

Reasoning50

Writing35

Agents & tools32

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).