open-sourceDeepSeek·Released 2024-12
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek's flagship open-weights MoE model. Chosen when price and open weights matter more than vendor reputation.
Pricing verified May 7, 2026 · source
Key specifications
| Vendor | DeepSeek |
| Tier | open-source |
| Context window | 128K tokens |
| Pricing | Open weights; very low API pricing — see api-docs.deepseek.com |
| Released | 2024-12 |
| Parameters | 671B (MoE, ~37B active) |
| Categories | Text GenerationCode GenerationAdvanced ReasoningOpen Source |
Key features
- •Open weights
- •Mixture-of-Experts — large total / small active
- •Very competitive on coding and math benchmarks
- •Aggressive API pricing