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title: "DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/deepseek__deepseek-chat-v3-0324/
description: "DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324: $0.250/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324: $0.250/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek · released 2025-03-24

 $0.438 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+36.6** higher and costs **76% less** ($0.105/M against $0.438/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[Solar Pro 4](/models/upstage__solar-pro4) is cheaper still (88% less) but drops 164K → 131K max output.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.250 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.00 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 15.2 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 21.2 |
| Agentic | 1.6 |
| LMArena Elo | 1375 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 164K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 164K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-07-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

DeepSeek V3, a 685B-parameter, mixture-of-experts model, is the latest iteration of the flagship chat model family from the DeepSeek team. It succeeds the [DeepSeek V3](/deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3) model and performs really well...