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DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek's flagship open-source model that matches frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. Caused major disruption in early 2025 with an unprecedented price-to-performance ratio.

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Pricing

Input
$0.270
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.10
per 1M tokens

Specifications

ProviderDeepSeek
Released2024-12
Context Window128K
Max Output8K
MultimodalNo
API AvailableYes

Benchmarks

88.5
MMLU
91.6
HumanEval
75.7
MATH

Strengths

  • Extremely cheap
  • Strong coding
  • Open weights (MIT)
  • No vendor lock-in

Weaknesses

  • No multimodal
  • Chinese data jurisdiction
  • Smaller ecosystem

Best For

codinghigh volumebudgetopen sourceresearch

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