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R1 8B
DeepSeek's 8B reasoning model distilled from Qwen3 (R1-0528) with strong math, code, and logic.
R1 8B is an open-weight text model from DeepSeek. It takes a text prompt and replies with generated text. It runs entirely on your own hardware through Ollama: no API key and no per-use fees.
Modality
Text
Available on
Ollama
Model ID
ollama:deepseek-r1:8b
Supported OS
macOSWindowsLinux
Minimum machine configuration
16 GB RAM · 128K ctx · text · CPU/GPU
Download size · ~5.2 GB
Specs
- Pricing
- Free, runs on your hardware
About the creator
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab whose open-weight models — from the R1 reasoning distills to the V4 mixture-of-experts family — bring frontier-grade reasoning under permissive (MIT) licensing.
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