DeepSeek V3 pricing & benchmarks
DeepSeek V3 is available from DeepSeek at $0.257 per million input tokens and $1.03 per million output tokens ($0.450 blended at 3:1). It accepts up to 163,840 tokens of context. DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, the reported evaluations...
Pricing
Per million tokens · OpenRouter
Input$0.257
Output$1.03
Blended (3:1)$0.450
Specification
deepseek/deepseek-chat
Context window164K
Max output16K
ReleasedDec 2024
LicenceOpen weights
Modalitiesin:text, out:text
No independently-run benchmark scores are published for DeepSeek V3 yet. We show nothing rather than reprinting an unverified figure.
Where to run DeepSeek V3
3 hosts · 1.4× between cheapest and dearest. Blended at 3:1. ⚠ marks an option serving less context than the best available, or re-pricing above a prompt-length threshold. Bracketed labels are the provider's own service tier or region.
| Host | Blended $/1M | In / Out | Context | Weights | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StreamLake ⚠ 128K context, not 164K |
$0.450 | $0.257 / $1.03 | 128K | — | 99.6% |
| DeepInfra | $0.462 | $0.320 / $0.890 | 164K | fp4 | 97.4% |
| Novita ⚠ 64K context, not 164K |
$0.625 | $0.400 / $1.30 | 64K | fp8 | 99.9% |
Host prices and uptime from OpenRouter, synced 2026-08-08. Lower-precision weights (fp4, fp8) can cost less and score worse than the same model at bf16 — the score above is not host-specific.
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FAQ
How much does DeepSeek V3 cost?
DeepSeek V3 costs $0.257 per million input tokens and $1.03 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. At a 3:1 input:output mix that blends to $0.450 per million tokens.
What is DeepSeek V3's context window?
DeepSeek V3 accepts up to 163,840 tokens of context, and can generate up to 16,000 output tokens.