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DeepSeek V3OPEN
DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek): live API pricing, context window and the best open-source alternatives, tracked daily by OpenSourceAI.tech.
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for DeepSeek V3, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Dec '24.
For the same budget, DeepSeek V3 delivers 4.7 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
DeepSeek V3 is an open-weight AI model by DeepSeek. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is DeepSeek V3?
DeepSeek V3 is an AI language model from DeepSeek. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 14.2 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is DeepSeek V3 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host DeepSeek V3 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.2 per million input tokens and $0.8 per million output tokens.
What is DeepSeek V3 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 55.7%, MMLU-Pro 75.2%, Humanity's Last Exam 3.6%, Long Context Reasoning 29%, LiveCodeBench 35.9%, SciCode 35.4%, MATH-500 88.7%, AIME 25.3%, AIME 2025 26%, IFBench 34.8%, τ²-Bench 22.8%, τ-Bench Banking 4.7%, Terminal-Bench 16.9%, Terminal-Bench Hard 6.8%. It is particularly used for code generation.
Can I self-host DeepSeek V3?
Yes. DeepSeek V3 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
Depending on your workload, an open-weight model that you can self-host may cut costs dramatically or remove per-token pricing entirely. Our comparison pages put this model side by side with the strongest open-source contenders.