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DeepSeek: R1 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B ·DeepSeek vs DeepSeek

DeepSeek: R1 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 profile DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#22 of 65
75based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#304 of 339
19.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#251 of 439
$1.15
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.70 · Out $2.50
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#441 of 473
64k
tokens (~98 pages)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B — DeepSeek
Quality
#47 of 65
53based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 scores 75 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B scores 53 — a 22-point lead for DeepSeek: R1. They share 9 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 ahead on 8 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B ahead on 1.

Published pricing is tracked for DeepSeek: R1 only, at $1.15 per 1M tokens blended.

DeepSeek: R1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Known Good Index 75 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 53 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.15
Output tok/s 20
Context window 64k
Providers 2 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Known Good Index 75 53
Mathematics Index 74
Reasoning Index 77 55
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: R1 · marker = DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond69 / 64
Mock AIME 2024–2553 / 56
LiveBench72 / 46
LiveBench Coding67 / 34
LiveBench Data Analysis70 / 45
LiveBench Instruction Following81 / 56
LiveBench Language49 / 27
LiveBench Mathematics81 / 59
LiveBench Reasoning83 / 52

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 / DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B. DeepSeek: R1 leads on 8 of 9, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B on 1.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Text Arena 1,372
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,398
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Input $/1M $0.70
Output $/1M $2.50
Blended $/1M $1.15
Cache read $/1M
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Context window 64k
Max output tokens 16k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: R1DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Output tokens/s 20
Time to first token 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 blendedDeepSeek: R1 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B blendedDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B tok/s
Novita $1.15 19
Azure · first party $2.60

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →