How much does DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B cost?

On the Respan gateway, DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.09 per 1M output tokens on Novita, after gateway discounts.

Which providers serve DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B on Respan?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B is served by Novita.

What is DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B's context window?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B accepts up to 128K tokens of context.

How do I use DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B with the Respan gateway?

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

Q: What is DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B?

DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B is a model from Deepseek, released on May 29, 2025. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a lightly upgraded release of DeepSeek R1 that taps more compute and smarter post-training tricks, pushing its reasoning and inference to the brink of flagship models like O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. It now tops math, programming, and logic leaderboards, showcasing a step-change in depth-of-thought. The distilled variant, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, transfers this chain-of-thought into an 8 B-parameter form, beating standard Qwen3 8B by +10 pp and tying the 235 B “thinking” giant on AIME 2024.

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a lightly upgraded release of DeepSeek R1 that taps more compute and smarter post-training tricks, pushing its reasoning and inference to the brink of flagship models like O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. It now tops math, programming, and logic leaderboards, showcasing a step-change in depth-of-thought. The distilled variant, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, transfers this chain-of-thought into an 8 B-parameter form, beating standard Qwen3 8B by +10 pp and tying the 235 B “thinking” giant on AIME 2024.

Input / output price: $0.06 / $0.09 per 1M
Weekly tokens / requests: 11.9K / 4
Context: 128K tokens
Released: May 29, 2025

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Agent setup

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Help me set up the Respan gateway: fetch and follow https://www.respan.ai/docs/agent-setup.md. Use model "deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b".

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(

    base_url="https://api.respan.ai/api/",

    api_key="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",

)

response = client.chat.completions.create(

    model="deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b",

    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],

)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({

  baseURL: "https://api.respan.ai/api/",

  apiKey: "YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY",

});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({

  model: "deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b",

  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],

});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://api.respan.ai/api/chat/completions \

  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY" \

  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

  -d '{

    "model": "deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b",

    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]

}'

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Providers

One provider serves this model, priced per 1M tokens after gateway discounts.

Provider	Context	Input	Output	Cache read	Capabilities
Novita`novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b`	128K	$0.06/M	$0.09/M	—

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens on Novita, after gateway discounts.

Input: $0.06 per 1M
Output: $0.09 per 1M

Cost by volume

Total cost from 0 to 1T tokens.

$0.06/MNovita

Apps

Use DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B in the tools you already run. Each guide points the app at the Respan gateway.

Setup guides for more apps are in the integration docs.