Aion-2.0 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Prices checked
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B takes 3 of 5 rounds against Aion-2.0. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.34 per million tokens against $1.
Aion-2.0
131k context · tool calling
$1/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · $0.58 per 1,000 pages
DeepSeekWins 3 roundsDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
131k context · open weights
$0.34/M tokensCheapest price, at Requesty · $0.18 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.80/M
$0.99/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$1.60/M
$0.99/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
none below the maker
$0.34/M at Requesty
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$1/M
$0.99/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.58
$0.18
Context
131k tokens
131k tokens
Open weights
no
yes
Tool calling
yes
no
Structured output
no
not published
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
21 Dec 2025
23 Jan 2025
Providers selling it
7
14
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
DigitalOcean Gradient
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
not published
Providers selling both · 0
No provider we read sells both, so running the two means two accounts.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Aion-2.0 or DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B, at $0.34 per million tokens against $1 for Aion-2.0, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 21 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Aion-2.0: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $1 is the number to beat. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B: $0.34 at Requesty.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- No provider we read sells both, so running the two means two accounts and two bills.
- Which holds more context?
- Both hold 131k tokens in one call.
Prices exclude tax, read 21 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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