DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3 is an open-weight model from DeepSeek, released Mar 24, 2025. It ranks #181 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1375. It costs $0.29 per million input tokens and $1.14 per million output tokens, with a 160K-token context window.

LMArena text1375−0 in 30 days
Rank#181/351
95% interval1371–1379
Votes45K
Developer
DeepSeek
Released
Mar 24, 2025
Context window
160K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.29 / $1.14
Weights
Open · DeepSeek
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
659.6K
Hugging Face likes
3.2K
DeepSeek-V3, LMArena text rating over time
13001325135013751400Dec 24Jun 25Nov 25May 26Oct 26
LatestDeepSeek-V3 1375

The rating LMArena published at each update since Dec 30, 2024. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
LiveCodeBenchCoding65.48%101 / 143$0.9 / $0.9
MedQAMedicine80.90%69 / 92$0.9 / $0.9
GPQA DiamondReasoning54.55%118 / 138$0.9 / $0.9
MMLU-ProReasoning73.82%116 / 138$0.9 / $0.9
AIMEReasoning27.50%74 / 96$0.9 / $0.9

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1375181 / 35145K
CodingLMArena1368209 / 3468.3K
MathLMArena1373194 / 3393.2K
Creative writingLMArena1364151 / 3496K
Instruction followingLMArena1345194 / 35112.4K
Hard promptsLMArena1365194 / 35118.6K
Multi-turnLMArena1389168 / 3497.7K
Long queriesLMArena1352200 / 3308.5K
ExpertLMArena1351201 / 3052.4K
Legal and governmentIndustries1379181 / 3252.9K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1383178 / 3252.7K
Business and financeIndustries1349195 / 3446.9K
ChineseLanguages1390188 / 3283K
SpanishLanguages1358186 / 249987
GermanLanguages1374149 / 2611.2K
FrenchLanguages1385168 / 252594
JapaneseLanguages1333140 / 2361.1K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown (DeepSeek-V3 (0324), DeepSeek-V3).

Compare DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek

A research lab known for strong open-weight reasoning and coding models trained at low cost. Founded 2023, based in Hangzhou. deepseek.com

Questions

Who makes DeepSeek-V3?

DeepSeek-V3 is made by DeepSeek, founded 2023 and based in Hangzhou.

How much does DeepSeek-V3 cost?

$0.29 per million input tokens and $1.14 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is DeepSeek-V3’s context window?

160K tokens (163,840).

How does DeepSeek-V3 rank?

#181 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1375 (95% interval 1371–1379) from 44,974 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is DeepSeek-V3 open source?

DeepSeek-V3 has open weights under the DeepSeek license, downloadable from Hugging Face (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324).

Sources

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