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R1 0528 vs Ornith 1.5 9B

R1 0528 (DeepSeek) and Ornith 1.5 9B (Ornith Ai) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 10 September 2026

As of 10 September 2026, Ornith 1.5 9B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#58 vs #59).

Which should you choose?

Choose R1 0528 if…

  • you want provider choice — 4 listed API providers against 0.

Choose Ornith 1.5 9B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #58 against #59 (58.2 vs 57.6 points).
  • you want the more recently listed model — Ornith 1.5 9B was listed 18 August 2026, R1 0528 28 May 2025.

R1 0528 vs Ornith 1.5 9B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of R1 0528 and Ornith 1.5 9B
FieldR1 0528DeepSeekOrnith 1.5 9BOrnith Ai
ModelCap Index position#59#58
Index score57.658.2
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$0.50Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$2.15Unlisted
Context window164K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens33K—
API providers listed40
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed28 May 202518 August 2026
PublisherDeepSeekOrnith Ai

Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · global-corpus-prior over 185 held-out anchors (48%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 10 rows (52%); exceeds every named peer on 3 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.3 toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: R1 0528 vs Ornith 1.5 9B

Public benchmark boards where R1 0528 or Ornith 1.5 9B has a published result
BoardR1 0528Ornith 1.5 9BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14641453–1475—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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R1 0528 vs Ornith 1.5 9B: common questions

Is R1 0528 better than Ornith 1.5 9B?

Ornith 1.5 9B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 10 September 2026: #58 against #59. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is R1 0528 cheaper than Ornith 1.5 9B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, R1 0528 or Ornith 1.5 9B?

Both publish a 164K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, R1 0528 or Ornith 1.5 9B?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are R1 0528 and Ornith 1.5 9B open-weight models?

R1 0528: Open weights. Ornith 1.5 9B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run R1 0528 and Ornith 1.5 9B?

ModelCap currently lists 4 API providers for R1 0528 and 0 for Ornith 1.5 9B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this R1 0528 vs Ornith 1.5 9B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 10 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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