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R1 benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place R1, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboard Sources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#61of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 38 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places R1

Artificial Analysis

#43of 51

Score 11.4. Best run: deepseek/deepseek-r1.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#42of 79

Score 1422. Best run: deepseek-r1-0528.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$1.15

OpenRouter: $0.70 in, $2.50 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $1.35 in, $5.40 out Context window 64K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of R1

Questions about R1

How good is R1?

R1 ranks #61 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 38 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.

Is R1 better than DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus?

Not on the consensus: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus scores 40 to R1's 38. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.

Is R1 better than GPT-5.4 Nano?

On the consensus, yes: 38 to 38.

How much does R1 cost?

$0.70 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $1.15 per million.

Is R1 good for coding?

It scores 24.6 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #42 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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