deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 vs deepseek/deepseek-r1
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 is cheaper: $7.50 a month at Novita AI, against $265.00 for deepseek/deepseek-r1 at OpenRouter — 35.3× the cost.
Cheapest on each
deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2
$7.50/mo
cheapest, at Novita AI — $0.03 in, $0.03 out per million
deepseek/deepseek-r1
$265.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.7 in, $2.5 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 | deepseek/deepseek-r1 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | ○ no answer | 64K |
| Accepts | ○ no answer | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.03 / M | $0.7 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | ○ no answer |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2 /mo | deepseek/deepseek-r1 /mo |
|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $7.502026-10-22 | ○ no answer |
| OpenRouter | ○ no answer | $265.002026-10-19 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.