DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek V3 is worth evaluating for coding, agents, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, agents, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 64k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- DeepSeek V3
- Released
- 2024-12-26
- Context
- 64k
- Parameters
- 671B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-04
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 13 routes · DeepSeek Platform
About
DeepSeek V3: Latest flagship model. 685B total with MoE. 128K context. Open-source.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ B4 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ B3 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 13Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Platform | $0.140 | $0.280 | Serverless |
| Bitdeer AI | $0.100 | $0.300 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.252 | $0.378 | Serverless |
| SiliconFlow | $0.150 | $0.500 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(16)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(9)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HellaSwag | 95.7 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HumanEval | 85.5 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 88.5 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 49.6 | 2026-04Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Aider Polyglot | 48.4 | 2026-04Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| BigCodeBench | 50.0 | 2025-01 (Instruct Pass@1)Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1302.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 75.9 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
| Mostly Basic Programming Problems+ | 76.0 | —Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
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Cheapest of 13 routes · DeepSeek Platform