DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B vs DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B
Architecture Comparison
SpecDeepSeek R1 Distill 32BDeepSeek R1 Distill 14B
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters32.8B14.8B
Active Parameters32.8B14.8B
Layers6448
Hidden Dimension5,1205,120
Attention Heads4040
KV Heads88
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Memory Requirements
PrecisionDeepSeek R1 Distill 32BDeepSeek R1 Distill 14B
BF16 Weights65.6 GB29.6 GB
FP8 Weights32.8 GB14.8 GB
INT4 Weights16.4 GB7.4 GB
KV-Cache / Token262144 B196608 B
Activation Estimate2.00 GB1.50 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM1 GPU1 GPU
L40S2 GPUs1 GPU
Capabilities
FeatureDeepSeek R1 Distill 32BDeepSeek R1 Distill 14B
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✗ No✗ No
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✓ Yes✓ Yes
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes
API Pricing Comparison
Cheapest Output (DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B)
$0.50/M
Input: $0.50/M
Cheapest Output (DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B)
$0.30/M
Input: $0.30/M
| Provider | DeepSeek R1 Distill 32B In $/M | Out $/M | DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.60 | $0.60 | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| fireworks | $0.50 | $0.50 | — | — |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B is cheaper per output token ($0.30/M vs $0.50/M).
- ‣DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B has a smaller memory footprint (29.6 GB vs 65.6 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
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