Is deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 cheaper?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper on output tokens ($0.00 vs $2.18 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 has the larger context window (164K tokens).

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper on output tokens, while deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 offers a larger context window. Choose deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Provider	SiliconFlow (China)	SiliconFlow (China)
Input / 1M tokens	$0.00	$0.50
Output / 1M tokens	$0.00	$2.18
Context window	8K	164K
Parameters	—	671B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Oct 2025	May 2025

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR details →deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 details →

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