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R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Claude Opus 4.1

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · R1 Distill Llama 70B · Claude Opus 4.1 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Llama 70B
#197 by perf·no signal
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Claude Opus 4.1
#137 by perf·no signal
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Best value
40.4x better value than Claude Opus 4.1
R1 Distill Llama 70B
37.1 pts/$
$0.75/M
Claude Opus 4.1
0.9 pts/$
$45.00/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Llama 70B$0.70$0.80131K tokens (~66 books)$7.25
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.1$15.00$75.00200K tokens (~100 books)$300.00