Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Behemoth offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1 is $3.26 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Behemoth supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.

DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
Llama 4 Behemoth
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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