DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)
thinkPublic list price, verified 8h ago · cached input $0.11 /M
Benchmarks
preference
Crowdsourced pairwise human preference rankings of LLM responses. Higher Elo means more frequently preferred by users.
agentic
Real GitHub issues solved end-to-end. Verified subset is a 500-task human-validated slice of SWE-bench.
performance
Median output speed in tokens per second over the last 14 days on the model maker's own API, measured nightly with a fixed ~800-token prompt and ~250-token answer. Models not yet probed fall back to a dated manual figure. Higher is faster.
Median time from request to first streamed token in milliseconds over the last 14 days on the model maker's own API, using the same nightly probe prompt. Lower is snappier; reasoning models are penalised here because they think before talking.
general
Contamination-controlled average across every task category in the latest rolling release (e.g. reasoning, coding, data analysis, research, browsing, long-horizon tasks). Questions are rotated with each release and graded against objective ground truth, removing the need for LLM-as-judge scoring. Only models with a score in every category get an average.
data analysis
Rolling contamination-controlled data-analysis evaluation. Table comprehension, CSV / spreadsheet reasoning, SQL-style joins, and chart interpretation. Refreshed every six months with new tables and questions to minimise contamination.
coding
Real-world refactoring and bug-fix tasks across multiple programming languages, scored by whether the model produces a passing patch in Aider's edit format. Tests practical coding ability beyond single-file generation; harder than HumanEval and not yet saturated.
Reliability monitor
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Hosted endpoints
| Host | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Speed | TTFT | Uptime 24h | Quant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host 43 | $0.25 | $1.00 | 164k | 25 tok/s | 1.92 s | 100.0% | fp8 |
| Host 44 | $0.29 | $1.14 | 128k | 36 tok/s | 4.04 s | 89.8% | fp8 |
Effort variants
Same API model, different reasoning budget. Thinking / xHigh modes usually score better on reasoning benchmarks but emit many more output tokens per request. Higher effort is also an alternative to running a team of agents: check whether the extra points are worth the extra output.
| Variant | Index | vs this page | Blended $/M | Output tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3 | 47.5 | -34.5 | $0.50 | 1× |
| DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)think | 82.0 | this page | $0.50 | 4× |
Output tokens are the typical multiple of a standard answer that the cost calculator assumes for each effort level; hidden reasoning bills as output.