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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs o4 Mini (batch)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B · o4 Mini (batch) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#190 by perf·no signal
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o4 Mini (batch)
#115 by perf·no signal
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Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
n/a
no price
o4 Mini (batch)
37.9 pts/$
$1.38/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bn/an/an/an/a
OpenAI logoo4 Mini (batch)$0.55$2.20200K tokens (~100 books)$9.63