DeepSeek V3
DeepSeekReleased Dec 26, 2024
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...
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 16K tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Tokenizer
- DeepSeek
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jul 31, 2024
- Released
- Dec 26, 2024
Pricing
Per 1M tokens. The provider price and our flat 3% fee are separate columns — what you pay is their sum.
| Per 1M tokens | Provider | + 3% fee | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.200 | $0.0060 | $0.206 |
| Output | $0.800 | $0.024 | $0.824 |
Benchmarks
Design Arena
| Category | Elo | Win rate | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3Dmodels | 1164 | 50.7% | #54 |
| Codemodels | 1158 | 48.5% | #67 |
| Data vizmodels | 1142 | 51.4% | #67 |
| Game devmodels | 1120 | 43.9% | #74 |
| SVGmodels | 1034 | 38.8% | #67 |
| UI componentsmodels | 1150 | 52.8% | #62 |
| Websitesmodels | 1163 | 48.5% | #65 |
Head-to-head preference voting. How we filter and rank
Supported parameters
- frequency_penalty
- logit_bias
- max_tokens
- min_p
- presence_penalty
- repetition_penalty
- response_format
- seed
- stop
- structured_outputs
- temperature
- tool_choice
- tools
- top_k
- top_p
Call it
OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK at api.openkey.ai/v1 and use model deepseek/deepseek-chat.
curl https://api.openkey.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENKEY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "deepseek/deepseek-chat",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
api_key=os.environ["OPENKEY_API_KEY"],
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek/deepseek-chat",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.openkey.ai/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENKEY_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "deepseek/deepseek-chat",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Questions
- How much does DeepSeek V3 cost via API?
- Through OpenKey, DeepSeek V3 costs $0.206 per 1M input tokens and $0.824 per 1M output tokens. That is the provider price ($0.200 / $0.800) plus a flat 3% fee — nothing else.
- What is DeepSeek V3's context window?
- DeepSeek V3 accepts up to 131K tokens of context and returns up to 16K tokens per request.
- Is DeepSeek V3 OpenAI-compatible?
- Yes. Send requests to OpenKey's /v1/chat/completions endpoint with model "deepseek/deepseek-chat" using any OpenAI SDK — only the base URL and API key change.
- What inputs does DeepSeek V3 support?
- DeepSeek V3 accepts text input and produces text output. Its knowledge cutoff is Jul 31, 2024.
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