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

$0.55

Output / 1M tokens

$2.19

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

Code

85%

Vision

Analyse

88%

Extract

75%

Generate

70%

Summarise

72%

Translate

65%

Conversation

65%