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DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek · Active · available in 3 of 31 regions

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Streaming Tool useVisionPrompt cachingBatch inferenceEmbeddingsFine-tuning
Context window
128K
128,000 tokens
Max output
—
Input / 1M
$1.35
us-east-1
Output / 1M
$5.40

What DeepSeek-R1 is good for

editorial

DeepSeek-R1 offers a 128K-token context window, at the premium end of this provider’s range at $1.35 per 1M input tokens. Callable in 3 of 31 regions.

Suits

  • Nothing specific stands out from the published capabilities.

Think twice if

  • Agentic loops. No prompt caching published, so every step re-pays full price for the prompt prefix. Expensive for agents that resend a long context.
  • Function calling. No tool use, so it cannot drive an agent loop or call your APIs — it answers from what is in the prompt.
  • Documents with layout. Text only. Scanned PDFs, screenshots and charts need a vision model or an OCR step first.
  • High volume. At $1.35 per 1M input tokens it sits at the expensive end of the DeepSeek range. Worth it for hard tasks, wasteful for bulk extraction.
  • Invocation. Reachable only through a cross-region inference profile — calling the bare model ID returns a validation error. Use an ID such as us.deepseek.r1-v1:0.

This section is judgement, not data from AWS. It is composed from the capabilities, context window, price position and region coverage shown elsewhere on this page — so it stays in step with the daily snapshot rather than going stale.

Where teams typically use it

Coding

Writing, reviewing and refactoring code, usually across more than one file.

  • · A review pass that flags real defects with a severity and leaves style alone.
  • · A framework upgrade applied across a repository, one module at a time, tests green between each.
  • · Turning a failing bug report into a reproducing test and then a fix.

Model & inference profile IDs

Base model ID — direct on-demand invoke

Cross-region inference profiles (1)

Regions marked Inference profile only require a profile ID rather than the base model ID — invoking the base ID there returns a validation error. Regional (us., eu.) profiles carry a 10% premium over global.

Pricing by region

USD per 1M tokens
Region Input Output Cache read Cache write Batch in Batch out Source
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) $1.35 $5.40 — — — — API
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) $1.35 $5.40 — — — — API
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) $1.35 $5.40 — — — — API

Region availability

Inference profile only us-east-1 Profile only Inference profile only us-east-2 Profile only Not available us-west-1 Not available Inference profile only us-west-2 Profile only Not available ca-central-1 Not available Not available ca-west-1 Not available Not available mx-central-1 Not available Not available eu-west-1 Not available Not available eu-west-2 Not available Not available eu-west-3 Not available Not available eu-central-1 Not available Not available eu-central-2 Not available Not available eu-north-1 Not available Not available eu-south-1 Not available Not available eu-south-2 Not available Not available ap-east-2 Not available Not available ap-northeast-1 Not available Not available ap-northeast-2 Not available Not available ap-northeast-3 Not available Not available ap-south-1 Not available Not available ap-south-2 Not available Not available ap-southeast-1 Not available Not available ap-southeast-2 Not available Not available ap-southeast-3 Not available Not available ap-southeast-4 Not available Not available ap-southeast-5 Not available Not available ap-southeast-6 Not available Not available ap-southeast-7 Not available Not available il-central-1 Not available Not available af-south-1 Not available Not available sa-east-1 Not available

TPM / RPM are default account quotas from AWS Service Quotas where a model-specific limit is published. They are per-account defaults and adjustable on request.

Where this model actually runs

Under a strict residency constraint, DeepSeek-R1 can be served without the request leaving 1 of the 25 jurisdictions with a Bedrock region.

United States All jurisdictions →

Common questions

How much does DeepSeek-R1 cost on Amazon Bedrock?
$1.35 per 1M input tokens and $5.40 per 1M output tokens in us-east-1.
Which AWS regions support DeepSeek-R1?
3 of 31 regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2. Regions marked profile-only need a cross-region inference profile ID such as us.deepseek.r1-v1:0 rather than the bare model ID.
What is the context window of DeepSeek-R1?
128,000 tokens (128K).
What is the model ID for DeepSeek-R1 on Bedrock?
deepseek.r1-v1:0. In regions where it is only reachable through a cross-region inference profile, use a prefixed ID instead: us.deepseek.r1-v1:0.

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