deepseek-r1:cloud — Free API

What is deepseek-r1:cloud?

DeepSeek R1 is available as a cloud-hosted reasoning model through Ollama Cloud's free tier with 128K context. R1's chain-of-thought deliberation excels at math, logic puzzles, and multi-step coding. Ollama Cloud provides an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The free tier is community-supported with no guaranteed rate limits — best for personal evaluation of reasoning model capabilities.

deepseek-r1:cloud API Code Example

Paste your API key and run. See the config generator for Claude Code, Cursor, and more tools.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.ollama.com",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-r1-cloud",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const openai = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.ollama.com",
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
});

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
  model: "deepseek-r1-cloud",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

curl https://api.ollama.com/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-r1-cloud",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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