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DeepSeek V3OPEN
DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.45 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 37% of the 200 open-weight models tracked here
- 10 of 15 DeepSeek models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for DeepSeek V3, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Dec '24.
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 daily, 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.
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 $0.26 per million input tokens and $1.03 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 2.9%, Long Context Reasoning 29.3%, LiveCodeBench 35.9%, SciCode 35.8%, 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.