Question 1

What is DeepSeek R1 (Turbo)?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) is a model from Deepseek, released on Mar 5, 2025. DeepSeek R1 is here: Performance on par with OpenAI o1, but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. $0.70 per million input tokens, $2.50 per million output tokens. 163,840 token context window, maximum output of 16,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 2 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

Question 2

How much does DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.63 per 1M tokens on Novita, and output starts at $2.25 per 1M tokens on Novita, after gateway discounts.

Question 3

Which providers serve DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) on Respan?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) is served by Novita.

Question 4

What is DeepSeek R1 (Turbo)'s context window?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) accepts up to 64K tokens of context.

Question 5

How do I use DeepSeek R1 (Turbo) with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

How fast is DeepSeek R1 (Turbo)?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was Novita at 13 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 5.1 seconds on Novita. Speed varies with request size and provider.

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