Roundup
Best AI Models for Coding
Which frontier models actually hold up in multi-file refactors, agentic tooling and test-driven work, and what they cost per million tokens.
DeepSeek: R1 0528
deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528
May 28th update to the [original DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1) Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active...
Listed (28 May 2025)
Source: OpenRouter (live)
- Input
- $0.500
- USD per 1M tokens
- Output
- $2.15
- USD per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $0.913
- 75% in / 25% out
- Context
- 164K
- tokens
- Max output
- 33K
- tokens
- Modality
- text->text
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Capabilities
Declared on the listing
- Tool / function calling Declared
- Reasoning controls Declared
- Structured output Declared
- InputText
- OutputText
Capabilities are read from the provider listing. “Not declared” means the listing does not advertise the feature, not that it is absent.
Why it costs this
Pricing context
- 1.1× median
- Market median blended price is $0.806/M across 417 priced models.
Alternatives
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/M blended
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/M blended
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$0.806
/M blended
$0.990
/M blended
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$0.050
/M blended
Alternatives
Similar price, other providers
Moonshot AI
$0.900
/M blended
Z.ai (Zhipu)
$0.900
/M blended
Morph
$0.900
/M blended
Z.ai (Zhipu)
$0.930
/M blended
Relace
$0.950
/M blended
Aion Labs
$0.875
/M blended
Within ±50% of $0.913/M blended.
Analysis
Related reading
Review
DeepSeek Review
Open-weight, remarkably cheap and genuinely capable. Where DeepSeek fits and what to watch for.
Low-cost open-weight reasoning and chat models. All DeepSeek models · Official site
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