> DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B is an open-weights AI model from DeepSeek, released 20 Jan 2025. Index score 126 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 127 of 229 ranked models. [Models](https://themodelindex.org/models/) /[DeepSeek](https://themodelindex.org/labs/deepseek/) # DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B DeepSeek Released 20 Jan 2025 Open [Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-vs-o1/) 126114–137 Index score #127 · provisional, limited data 1/ 8 Core tests taken 1 of 6 areas · plus 2 anchor tests −10 Versus the frontier at release best then: o1 – Price per million tokens no public API price found – Context window tokens it reads at once ## Where it sits · on the frontier _Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_ o1 reached this score 2 months earlier. ## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model Show 2 anchor tests Reasoning & knowledge evidence GPQA Diamond 56% Humanity's Last Exam no result Maths evidence FrontierMath T1-3 no result Coding no evidence yet SWE-bench Verified no result Terminal-Bench no result Agents no evidence yet APEX-Agents no result Novel problems no evidence yet ARC-AGI-2 no result Long tasks no evidence yet METR time horizon no result Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above. ## What others say · rank on each leaderboard The Model Index independent tests, our method #127 of 219 · 126 Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source. ## Best at · top three among current models Not in the top three among current models on any category we track. Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests. ## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026 #### From the lab DeepSeek Chat app · subscription ↗ DeepSeek API API ↗ Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps. ## Facts and sources Released 20 Jan 2025 Announcement not linked yet Release entry – Scored as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B Artificial Analysis index – Output speed – Hugging Face not linked ## DeepSeek releases · around this one DeepSeek Coder Open 2 NOV 2023 DeepSeek LLM 67B Open 29 NOV 2023 index 82 --- Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01