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title: "DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
canonical: https://undominated.ai/models/deepseek__deepseek-chat/
description: "DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3: $0.257/M in, $1.03/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3: $0.257/M in, $1.03/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26

 $0.450 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.257 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.03 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1332.6 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 | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-07-31 |

### Provenance

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

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...