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DeepSeek V3

Complete specs, pricing, and benchmark data for DeepSeek V3 by DeepSeek. Last verified 2026-10-05.

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Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.280

Output / 1M tokens

$0.420

Cached Input / 1M

$0.028

Context & Output

Context Window

128K

Max Output

8,192

TTFT

220ms

Speed

85 tok/s

Benchmarks

Arena ELO

1358

Coding ELO

1358

Reasoning ELO

1358

HumanEval

92

MMLU

87.5

MATH

78.5

GPQA

59

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Strengths
  • +Excellent coding performance for its price
  • +Open-source and self-hostable
  • +Very competitive benchmarks
  • +Extremely affordable
Limitations
  • -No vision/multimodal support
  • -API availability can be inconsistent
  • -Smaller context than some competitors

Best For

CodingGeneral PurposeCost SensitiveOpen Source

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