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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B pricing, context window and limits

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B costs $0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens at Alibaba Qwen list price. It accepts up to 32,768 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 tokens.

  • Model id deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b
  • Snapshot

What does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B cost?​

List prices in US dollars per million tokens
Input$0
Output$0
Cached input (read)—
Cache write—

US dollars per million tokens. A dash means no price is published.

How much can DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B read and write?​

Token limits
Context window32,768
Max output16,384

What can DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B do?​

Capabilities
Vision (image input)No
Tool callingYes
Structured outputNo
ReasoningYes
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Outputtext

What does a request to DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B cost?​

Cost of example requests at list price, in US dollars
A typical request: 1,000 tokens in, 500 out$0
A long request: 10,000 tokens in, 1,000 out$0
1,000 typical requests$0
1 million tokens in and 1 million out$0

Among 64 Alibaba Qwen models with a published price, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is the cheapest by input price. Its context window is the 51st largest of 64. List prices only; discounts, batch prices and prices above 200K tokens are not shown.

How do I call DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B through DVARA?​

Configure the qwen provider in the DVARA LLM Gateway and send the model id deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b. DVARA, the AI governance platform, applies your policies, audit and cost attribution to the call. See LLM cost attribution and budgets.

In DVARA, if you haven't set your own price for a model, its calls are costed at the price in the catalogue that ships with your DVARA version. A price you set in Flightdeck always wins. You can switch catalogue prices off. Then a model with no price you set is counted as costing nothing. Every cost record says which price it used.

What should I check before relying on this data?​

The weekly review marked this entry. A person saw each mark and kept the model listed.

  • Input and output are both listed at $0, which is unusual for a hosted model.

Which other Alibaba Qwen models are there?​

All 64 Alibaba Qwen models · Search the full catalogue

Snapshot 4 October 2026. DVARA reviews every price weekly before it is published. Get the whole catalogue as models.json. Prices are list prices in US dollars per million tokens; check your provider contract before you budget.