DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
14B distilled R1 — laptop-friendly reasoning.
1× Nvidia RTX 3080.
Most-aggressive quantisation we have a working recommendation for. Lower precision = less VRAM = cheaper hardware, at a small accuracy cost.
Cheapest hosted endpoints.
| Provider | Access | $/M in | $/M out | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Together AI | hosted inference | $1.6 | $1.6 | Launch ↗ |
Variants in the DeepSeek family.
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek's flagship MoE — 671B total, 37B active, frontier-class.
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek's reasoning model — RL-trained, frontier-class, MIT-licensed.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
70B Llama distilled from DeepSeek R1's reasoning traces.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
32B Qwen base distilled from DeepSeek R1.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
7B distilled R1 — runs on any modern GPU.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Tiny distilled R1 — phone / browser deployable.
Frequently asked.
How do I run DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?
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Is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B open-source or proprietary?
Cheapest hardware per quantisation.
Each row is one quantisation tier (the same weights compressed differently). Lower precision → lower VRAM → cheaper hardware, at the cost of small accuracy loss. $/hr refreshed hourly from each provider's API.
| Quantisation | Cheapest GPU config | Total VRAM | Live $/hr | tokens/sec | |
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FP16
FP16 — half precision (default)
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40 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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FP8
FP8 — 8-bit float (Hopper / Blackwell)
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20 GB | $0.17/hr | — | Compare → | |
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INT8
INT8 — 8-bit integer
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24 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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INT4
INT4 — 4-bit integer (~4× VRAM saving)
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10 GB | — | — | Compare → |
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B across every host that publishes per-token pricing. Slide your token volumes; the chart + table re-rank cheapest-first.
Cheapest provider on the left.
Total monthly cost — input + output tokens combined.
Bill breakdown.
| Provider | Monthly total | |
|---|---|---|
| $19.2 | Sign up ↗ |
Rent the GPU instead of paying per token.
For an open-weights model like DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, you can rent a GPU and serve inference yourself. The math: cheapest GPU rental × 730 hours/month + your electricity rate × power draw.
Assumes the GPU runs 24/7 at ~85% utilisation. If your traffic is bursty, you'll pay less for the API and probably more for the GPU (idle hours still cost rental). The breakeven analysis lives on the Self-host vs API breakeven tool.
What it's best at.
Scores normalised against benchmark ceilings (100 = perfect). Coloured by tier — coral 80+ frontier, lavender 65+ strong, sage 50+ solid, slate below.
About DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B fits on a single RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 at FP16 — full reasoning capability on consumer hardware. Best size for hobbyist reasoning experimentation and on-prem workloads where a single workstation card is the budget.