DeepSeek V3

Open Source

DeepSeek•Released on 2026-01-15

Chinese AI rising star, priced at 1/100 of Claude. HN users praise its coding ability approaching top closed-source models with unbeatable value. Ideal for cost-sensitive scenarios and large-scale API calls.

80
Overall Score

Core Specs

128K
Context Window
32K
Max Output
✓
Reasoning
✓
Open Source
Multimodal Support
text

Scenario Scores

Coding
#7 / 882
Writing
#6 / 875
Translation
#4 / 885
Data Analysis
#5 / 880
Conversation
#6 / 880
Image Gen
#6 / 850

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Extremely low price
  • +Open source & self-hostable
  • +Strong coding ability
  • +Fast inference

Cons

  • −No multimodal
  • −Chinese-centric
  • −Service stability unproven

Pricing

Input (per 1M tokens)$0.14
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.28
Free trial available
Updated on 2026-03-06

Available In

Cline
Open Source

Compare with Others

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Benchmarks

sweBench65%
mmlu88.5%
humanEval91%