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DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

reasoning

Capabilities

ToolsCodeExtended ThinkingStructured Output

Strengths

  • Excellent reasoning at fraction of frontier pricing
  • Strong maths/logic
  • MIT licensed

Weaknesses

  • No vision
  • Higher output cost (chain-of-thought)
  • Data jurisdiction

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.7

Output / 1M tokens

$2.5

Context window

128k

Transparency

Open weights

10.0 / 10

Open training data

3.0 / 10

Open methodology

7.0 / 10

Licence openness

10.0 / 10

Provider disclosure

2.0 / 10

FMTI company score

300.0 / 10

Composite:6.4 / 10

MIT licence + open weights. But FMTI 30 due to minimal corporate disclosure. Open weights != corporate transparency.

Sustainability

Inference energy

4.0 / 10

Training footprint

N/A

Provider infrastructure

2.0 / 10

Composite:3.0 / 10

Reasoning = more tokens = higher energy per query.

Task Fitness

question answering
79%
code
85%
mathematics
87%
business communication
60%
analysis
88%
extraction
75%
long-form generation
70%
research
62%
reasoning
88%
summarisation
72%
translation
65%
conversation
65%