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Specifications
Context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider.
—1M
API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
—$2.00
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
—$10.00
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
—$0.10
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
—$1.00Google AI Studio
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
—$5.00Google AI Studio
—$900Google list price
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyDeepSeekGoogle
Release dateNov 20 2024Sep 30 2026
AccessOpen WeightClosed
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Frequently asked questions

DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview and Gemini 4 Argon don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Gemini 4 Argon has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview. DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview shipped 679 days before Gemini 4 Argon, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview is open weight, while Gemini 4 Argon is closed.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek-R1-Lite Preview and Gemini 4 Argon don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.