DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Open weights

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is a language model from DeepSeek with a 128K-token context window. Provider list price is $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output; on Allocate you pay $0.19 and $0.19 with the 7% transaction fee. The weights are open under MIT, so you can fine-tune it and own the result.

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Pricing

Provider listOn Allocate

Input, per M tokens$0.18$0.19

Output, per M tokens$0.18$0.19

Token usage bills at the provider list price plus the 7% transaction fee. Prices checked 2026-07-08.

Price against its peers

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B$0.18$0.18

Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Turbo$0.18$0.18

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct Reference$0.20$0.20

Llama Guard 4 12B$0.20$0.20

Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct$0.20$0.20

Meta Llama 3.1 8B$0.20$0.20

Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512$0.20$0.20

Mistral (7B) Instruct v0.1$0.20$0.20

InputOutput

Provider list prices per M tokens, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B against its nearest language peers by price.

What a real workload costs

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each: 1,200M input and 350M output tokens. At list prices that is 1,200 × $0.18 + 350 × $0.18 = $279 a month. Billed on Allocate it is $298.53 with the 7% transaction fee.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is an open-weights model under the MIT license. Fine-tune it on your own data and the weights stay inside your boundary; they belong to you.

Example usage

Point a route at deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b and the endpoint never changes; swap the model behind it whenever you want.

api.allocate.network

curl https://api.allocate.network/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALLOCATE_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user",
      "content": "Summarise the attached contract."}]
  }'

200 · deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b · inside your boundary

Common questions

How much does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B cost per million tokens?

Provider list price is $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens. On Allocate you pay list plus the 7% transaction fee: $0.19 in and $0.19 out.

What context window does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B have?

131,072 tokens (128K). At roughly 0.75 words per token, that is about 98k words of English text per request.

Can I fine-tune DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B?

Yes. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is an open-weights model under the MIT license. The license is permissive, so the fine-tuned weights are yours to use commercially. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

How do I call DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B on Allocate?

Send deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b in the model field of the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.allocate.network/v1, or point a route name (like prod/support-agent) at it so you can swap the model later without a deploy.