is deepseek r1 worth it

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is DeepSeek R1 worth running locally? The open reasoning champion, reviewed (2026)

DeepSeek R1 is the best open model for step-by-step reasoning — and thanks to its distilled versions, you don't need a data center to run it. Here's whether it's worth it, and which version to run.

Lena Fischer · 2h ago · 10 min