DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat
DeepSeek original V3 model, trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, matches leading closed-source models at a far lower price. Quantized at FP8.
- Tools
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.10
- Output
- $0.43
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 8.2K
- Average output (7 days)
- 293 tokens
- Longer than 30% of 465 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V3/Deepseek ChatDeepSeekThis model | Qwen3 MaxQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Balanced |
| Added | Feb 27, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 256KBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 293 tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.10Best | $1.20 |
| Output | $0.43Best | $6.00 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 27.1 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.5 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 16.0Best | 15.6 |
| Math Index | 59.0 | 80.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat
- Qwen3 Max
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat16.0
- Qwen3 Max15.6
DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: Better than 40% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.0
- Qwen3 Max: 80.7Top
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 45.7%
- Qwen3 Max: 50.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 11.2%
- Qwen3 Max: 11.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 75.1%
- Qwen3 Max: 76.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 83.7%
- Qwen3 Max: 84.1%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 49.0%Top
- Qwen3 Max: 44.1%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.3%
- Qwen3 Max: 76.7%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.0%
- Qwen3 Max: 80.7%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 32.6%Top
- Qwen3 Max: 20.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 78.9%Top
- Qwen3 Max: 74.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 45.7%
- Qwen3 Max: 50.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 27.1 tok/s
- Faster than 18% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 2.5 s
- Quicker than 67% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 68.1%
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "deepseek-chat",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-chat",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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