OpenAI o1 and Deepseek r1 have similar performance (o1 is a bit better at reasoning though you can see r1’s though process which you could argue trumps the competition). OpenAI o1 api cost: $60/million output tokens. Deepseek r1 api cost: $2.19/million output tokens.

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing

So basically I can get a ~lifetime supply of r1 tokens for… $20?

~lifespan = 2.27 billion seconds

r1 api can spit out 63 tokens per second

~143 billion lifetime tokens.

~$313 million for a lifetime supply of tokens.

$313 thousand not million which seems reasonable enough.