DeepSeek R1 Distill
by DeepSeek Chat · Thinking
DeepSeek R1 Distill is a family of smaller models distilled from DeepSeek R1's reasoning traces onto Qwen and Llama backbones. They bring much of R1's step-by-step reasoning to sizes that run on modest hardware.
- Publisher
- DeepSeek (opens in a new tab)
- API model name
- deepseek-r1-distill-qwen:1.5b
- Context window
- 128K tokens
- Sizes
- 1.5B, 7B, 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B
- Licence
- MIT
Run DeepSeek R1 Distill
Install it on a Pendra worker, then call it through our SDK with your pdr_sk_ API key.
from pendra import Pendra
client = Pendra(api_key="pdr_sk_...")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-r1-distill-qwen:1.5b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
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Run DeepSeek R1 Distill on infrastructure you trust.
Deploy a worker, install DeepSeek R1 Distill, and start serving it through one private API.