DeepSeek R1 Distill (Qwen-32B) — Cloudflare Workers AI

DeepSeek R1 is the open reasoning model that put DeepSeek on the map, with strong chain-of-thought performance and broad free availability. The providers below cover the free options.

For a stronger free upgrade, we recommend DeepSeek V4 Pro — a 1.6T-parameter MoE that rivals top proprietary models in coding, also free here.

Important: Cloudflare hosts the distilled DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B, not the full 671B R1 — it keeps much of R1's reasoning style at a smaller size. The free tier gives 10,000 Neurons/day (resets 00:00 UTC), no credit card.

cURL:

```bash curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$CF_ACCOUNT_ID/ai/run/@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CF_API_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Explain the Monty Hall problem."}]}' ```

Python:

```python import os, requests

acct = os.environ["CF_ACCOUNT_ID"] url = f"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{acct}/ai/run/@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b" r = requests.post( url, headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CF_API_TOKEN']}"}, json={"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the Monty Hall problem."}]}, ) print(r.json()["result"]["response"]) ```