Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) vs Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq): API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) is 92.8% cheaper ($18.86/mo vs $260.77/mo), while Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) leads in token generation speed (750 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) (DeepSeek API) Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) (GroqCloud) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.550 $0.050 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.140 $0.025 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $2.19 $0.08 Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1180 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $260.77 / mo $18.86 / mo Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) (-92.8%)
Context Window 64,000 tokens 128,000 tokens Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Output Speed (Throughput) 50 tokens/sec 750 tokens/sec Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq)
Batch API Discount -50% (DeepSeek API) -25% (GroqCloud) DeepSeek API
Primary Workload Fit Budget-friendly chain-of-thought logic, financial verification, logic synthesis Instant keyword tagging, sentiment scoring, routing prompts at 750+ tokens/sec Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) → Try Llama 3.1 8B Instant (Groq) → Open Full Simulator