MODEL PROFILE / EDITION 2026.09
R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on [Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct), using outputs from [DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1). The model combines advanced distillation techniques to a
No ordinal score is published because comparable evidence is incomplete. No rank delta is shown because there is no prior numeric snapshot.
Best for
Catalogue discovery; compare availability, context, and public token pricing before benchmark review.
Price & access
$0.8 input / $0.8 output per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.
Evidence summary
Availability and price come from OpenRouter; normalized frontend and coding evidence has not yet been reviewed.
Edition status
Tracked. Tracked in the September 2026 baseline.
Strengths
- Current model catalogue entry with a public API identifier and pricing metadata.
Tradeoffs
- No normalized frontend-quality score has been assigned.
- Popularity and recency are not treated as quality evidence.
Linked evidence
Evidence source 1 ↗Evidence source 2 ↗Use the same published data, filters, and side-by-side metrics.