R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek chatreasoning Free

API ID: deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b

Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is a distilled large language model based on [Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct), using outputs from [DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1). The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across multiple benchmarks, including: - AIME 2024 pass@1: 50.4 - MATH-500 pass@1: 89.1 - CodeForces Rating: 1205 The model leverages fine-tuning from DeepSeek R1's outputs, enabling competitive performance comparable to larger frontier models. Hugging Face: - [Llama-3.1-8B](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B) - [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B) |

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Price Ranking
#6 lowest price among 1240 Chat models โ€” Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
-
Max Output
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Release Date
2025-02-07
Capabilities
chat reasoning
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
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Get started with R1 Distill Llama 8B API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)