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DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 vs Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

On provider list prices, Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct costs $3.50 per million input tokens against $3 for DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4: effectively level. Output is $3.50 against $7 (2.0x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
LabDeepseekMeta
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window160K tokens4K tokens
List price, input$3 / M tokens$3.5 / M tokens
List price, output$7 / M tokens$3.5 / M tokens
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseMITLlama community
Fine-tunableYesYes

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $5,425 a month on Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct and $6,050 on DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 at list: a gap of $625.

DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 reads 160K tokens per request against 4K for Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct, 40.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4$3$7
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct$3.50$3.50
InputOutput

Choose DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 for

  • The lower list price ($3 in / $7 out per M tokens)
  • The longer context window (160K vs 4K tokens)
  • Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)
DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 details

Choose Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct for

  • Training toward a model you own
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 or Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct?

Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $3.50/$3.50 per million tokens in and out against $3/$7 for DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4. Billed on Allocate: $3.75/$3.75 against $3.21/$7.49, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4: 163,840 tokens (160K) against 4,096 (4K) for Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct.

Can I fine-tune DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4 or Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct?

Both publish open weights (DeepSeek R1 0528 NVFP4: MIT; Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct: Llama community), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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Run the numbers on your workload

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