Virtuoso Large vs R1 Distill Llama 70B

Virtuoso Large at $0.863 in and $1.38 out and R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 in and $0.920 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Virtuoso Large

Arcee AI

0.54¢

for a client proposal

$0.863 in · $1.38 out / 1M

131K context · released May 2025

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R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.53¢

for a client proposal

$0.920 in · $0.920 out / 1M

8K context · released January 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Virtuoso Large at $0.863 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 per million tokens.
Largest context: Virtuoso Large at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Virtuoso Large

0.24¢

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.23¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Virtuoso Large

0.54¢

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.53¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Virtuoso Large

needs 155K ctx

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Virtuoso Large

3.2¢

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 35K ctx

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Virtuoso Large

needs 250K ctx

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Virtuoso Large

R1 Distill Llama 70B

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Virtuoso Large

R1 Distill Llama 70B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.863

$0.920

Output / 1M tokens

$1.38

$0.920

Specs

Virtuoso Large

R1 Distill Llama 70B

Provider

Arcee AI

DeepSeek

Released

May 2025

January 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

64K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

2024-07-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Virtuoso Large

Arcee AI

0.24¢

for this task

71% input · 29% output

Full pricing →

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.23¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.47¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,060 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Virtuoso Large has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, R1 Distill Llama 70B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.53¢.

If you want to watch the model think, R1 Distill Llama 70B shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Virtuoso Large pricing →R1 Distill Llama 70B pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Virtuoso Large or R1 Distill Llama 70B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): R1 Distill Llama 70B at 0.53¢; Virtuoso Large at 0.54¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Virtuoso Large — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run Virtuoso Large and R1 Distill Llama 70B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 1.1¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.1¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.