Title: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs DeepSeek R1 0528 %E2%80%94 LLM EU
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# DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs DeepSeek R1 0528

Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.

Where two models differ, this table shows the difference and stops. LLM EU publishes no winner badge without a documented score for that task, and a missing figure stays missing instead of becoming a zero.

## When to use it

### [DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B](/en/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1-5b/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- mit licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 1.8B parameters it fits on a single accelerator

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 1.8B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/), [Low cost](/en/tasks/cheap/)

### [DeepSeek R1 0528](/en/models/deepseek-r1-0528/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- mit licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 684.5B parameters, self-hosting needs a multi-node deployment rather than a single server

#### Tasks

[Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/), [Coding](/en/tasks/coding/)

**Tasks:** [Reasoning](/en/tasks/reasoning/)

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