DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a lightly upgraded release of DeepSeek R1 that taps more compute and smarter post-training tricks, pushing its reasoning and inference to the brink of flagship models like O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. It now tops math, programming, and logic leaderboards, showcasing a step-change in depth-of-thought. The distilled variant, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, transfers this chain-of-thought into an 8 B-parameter form, beating standard Qwen3 8B by +10 pp and tying the 235 B “thinking” giant on AIME 2024.

Pricing

Price per input token: $0

Price per output token: $0

Usage Example

NOTE: BrainLink is compatible with the OpenAI API, which allows you to use the OpenAI SDK even with non-OpenAI models

import OpenAI from "openai";
const userAccessToken = await BrainLink.getUserToken();
const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "https://www.brainlink.dev/api/v1",
    apiKey: userAccessToken,
});
const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    model: "deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b:free",
    messages: [
      { role: "user", content: "Hi! How are you today?" }
    ],
});