DeepSeek V3 — AI Model Review & Pricing
The predecessor to DeepSeek V4. Extremely cost-effective and still a strong performer for its price.
Specifications
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Lab | DeepSeek |
| Tags | Intelligent Open Weight Coding |
| Release Date | 2024-12 |
| Context Window | 128,000 tokens |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.27 |
| Output Price / 1M | $1.10 |
| Input Modalities | Text |
| Output Modalities | Text |
Strengths
- Very cheap
- Open-weight
- Strong for its price tier
- Good coding
Weaknesses
- Behind V4 on reasoning
- Occasional Chinese training bias
Best For
- Budget deployments
- Self-hosting
- High-volume simple tasks
In Depth: DeepSeek V3
Summary
DeepSeek V3 is an AI model from DeepSeek ranked #94 of 124 on the LMRank leaderboard.
Released 2024-12. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank. It supports Text input and produces Text output, with a context window of 128,000 tokens. Input pricing is $0.27 per 1M tokens and output is $1.10 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.