How much does DeepSeek V3 cost?

DeepSeek V3 costs $0.2574/M input tokens and $1.029/M output tokens.

What is the context length of DeepSeek V3?

DeepSeek V3 has a 163,840 token context window. It supports up to 16,000 completion tokens.

Does DeepSeek V3 support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. DeepSeek V3 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Which providers serve DeepSeek V3?

DeepSeek V3 is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra and StreamLake. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

When was DeepSeek V3 released?

DeepSeek V3 was released on December 26, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is July 31, 2024.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3

deepseek/deepseek-chat

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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 reveal that the model outperforms other open-source models and rivals leading closed-source models.

For model details, please visit the DeepSeek-V3 repo for more information, or see the launch announcement.

Modalities

In / out price

10% off

$0.2574 / $1.029per 1M

Context

164K

Released

Dec 26, 2024

Knowledge cutoff

Jul 2024

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


10% off	$0.286$0.2574	$1.143$1.029	0.87s	50 tok/s	100.00%
	$0.32	$0.89	0.41s	37 tok/s	98.11%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Flex	$0.256	$0.712	0.86s	25 tok/s	100.00%

Input $0.2574Output $1.029
10% off
50 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.32Output $0.89
37 tok/s98.11% uptime
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Input $0.256Output $0.712
Flex
25 tok/s100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.2798/M tokens

Output

$0.9676/M tokens

DeepSeek V3 — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

		$0.257	$1.027	18.6%	63.3%
		$0.320	$0.887	0.0%	36.7%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
	Flex	$0.255	$0.705	0.0%	0.0%

Effective in $0.257Effective out $1.027
Token share
63.3%
Effective in $0.320Effective out $0.887
Token share
36.7%
Not used in Standard routing:Why these endpoints are not used
Effective in $0.255Effective out $0.705
FlexToken share
0.0%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.91%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.91%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.96%

Without Routing

97.03%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 (Design Arena)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena 3D Elo	1067
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena Code Categories Elo	1098
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo	1086
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena Game Development Elo	1043
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena SVG Elo	965
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena UI Component Elo	1083
Design Arena	DeepSeek-V3-0324 Models Arena Website Elo	1112

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Rave Scorer

new

3.79Btokens

Janitor AI

Janitor AI is a chatbot platform where users create and chat with custom AI characters for interactive roleplay, storytelling, and immersive fiction.

3.48Btokens

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

2.72Btokens

WildGirl

new

1.75Btokens

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that connects to your messaging apps and takes real actions on your behalf, from running commands and browsing the web to managing files and sending emails.

1.48Btokens

Rest of OpenRouter

1.22B

Top 5 Apps

189M

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

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