R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Kimi K2 0711

R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 in and $0.920 out and Kimi K2 0711 at $0.655 in and $2.65 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

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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Kimi K2 0711

Moonshot AI

0.54¢

for a client proposal

$0.655 in · $2.65 out / 1M

131K context · released July 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: Kimi K2 0711 at $0.655 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: R1 Distill Llama 70B at $0.920 per million tokens.
Largest context: Kimi K2 0711 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

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.23¢

Kimi K2 0711

0.26¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

0.53¢

Kimi K2 0711

0.54¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 155K ctx

Kimi K2 0711

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 35K ctx

Kimi K2 0711

2.6¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

R1 Distill Llama 70B

needs 250K ctx

Kimi K2 0711

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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R1 Distill Llama 70B

Kimi K2 0711

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Pricing

R1 Distill Llama 70B

Kimi K2 0711

Input / 1M tokens

$0.920

$0.655

Output / 1M tokens

$0.920

$2.65

Specs

R1 Distill Llama 70B

Kimi K2 0711

Provider

DeepSeek

Moonshot AI

Released

January 2025

July 2025

Context window

131K

Max output

100K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2024-12-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

0.23¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Kimi K2 0711

Moonshot AI

0.26¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.49¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,013 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Kimi K2 0711 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 →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, R1 Distill Llama 70B or Kimi K2 0711?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): R1 Distill Llama 70B at 0.53¢; Kimi K2 0711 at 0.54¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Kimi K2 0711 — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run R1 Distill Llama 70B and Kimi K2 0711 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.