Data as of 2026-09-20.
Price spread

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b

DeepSeek· 131K ctx· mit
open weights quant: unknown

spread (output, p90 ÷ p10)

— too few providers

$0.150 – $0.431 · 2 providers · max÷min 2.9×

2 providers priced · 2 offerings

Cheapest / median / spread use providers that serve the model on their own capacity: first-party lab, hyperscaler, inference host.

Provider classes in the stats:
Blended $/M assumptions

blended = 90.9% input × [(1 − 70% cache) × input + 70% cache × cache-read] + 9.1% × output + cache writes (30% of uncached input) where a write price is published

A provider that publishes no cache price is blended with cache share 0 (all input at the input price) and labelled “no cache price published” — never penalised against identical in/out prices.

ProviderInputOutputCache rdBlended
NovitaAI
inference host
$0.150$0.150—$0.150no cache price published
Alibaba (China)CN
first-party lab
$0.144$0.431—$0.170no cache price published

Data: models.dev (MIT), snapshot 2026-09-20. Prices are vendor-published; verify before purchase. Methodology.