DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B vs DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B
Architecture Comparison
SpecDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek R1 Distill 70B
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters8B70.6B
Active Parameters8B70.6B
Layers3280
Hidden Dimension4,0968,192
Attention Heads3264
KV Heads88
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Memory Requirements
PrecisionDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek R1 Distill 70B
BF16 Weights16.0 GB141.2 GB
FP8 Weights8.0 GB70.6 GB
INT4 Weights4.0 GB35.3 GB
KV-Cache / Token131072 B327680 B
Activation Estimate1.00 GB2.50 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM1 GPU3 GPUs
L40S1 GPU4 GPUs
Capabilities
FeatureDeepSeek R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek R1 Distill 70B
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 8B)
$0.20/M
Input: $0.20/M
Cheapest Output (DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B)
$0.88/M
Input: $0.88/M
| Provider | DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B In $/M | Out $/M | DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.88 | $0.88 |
| fireworks | — | — | $0.90 | $0.90 |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B is cheaper per output token ($0.20/M vs $0.88/M).
- ‣DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B has a smaller memory footprint (16.0 GB vs 141.2 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
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