DeepSeek V3 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: DeepSeek V3
Author: DeepSeek

top 10 on 0 of 2 · released Mar 24, 2025

Provider: DeepSeek
Release date: Mar 24, 2025; Boards
Parameters: 684B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Text; OpenRouter
Context window: 164K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.25 in / $1 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 2 priced API routes · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing
Hardware: Estimate: about 688 GB of weights as published (F8 E4M3), about 684 GB at 8-bit, about 342 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Benchmarks: 2 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
20	Aider PolyglotCoding · stale since 2025-10-03 · as “DeepSeek V3 (0324)”	Coding	55.1%	50
54	MMLU-ProReasoning · stale since 2026-03-11 · as “Deepseek-V3-0324”	Reasoning	81.3%	100

Versions and release history

4 versions in this line since Sep 5, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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