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DeepSeek-V3

A Stronger, Faster, Cheaper Frontier Model

A sparse mixture-of-experts large language model released by DeepSeek, with 671B total parameters and 37B activated parameters per token.

Pricing

Official site · Sep 8, 2026, 1:03 PM
Input / 1M
$0.27
Output / 1M
$1.10
Cached input / 1M
$0.07

API pricing stated on the official DeepSeek-V3 announcement as effective from Feb. 8.

DeepSeek's official DeepSeek-V3 announcement explicitly lists API pricing per 1M tokens: input cache miss $0.27, input cache hit $0.07, and output $1.10.

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Model Intelligence

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128,000 tokens
Arena ranking
9
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
8.5
Coding Index
23
Math Index
26
MMLU Pro
0.75
GPQA
0.56
HLE
0.03
LiveCodeBench
0.36
SciCode
0.36
MATH-500
0.89
AIME
0.25
AIME 2025
0.26
IFBench
0.35
LCR
0.29
TerminalBench Hard
0.07
TAU2
0.23

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