DeepSeek V3: API pricing, providers and specs
DeepSeek V3 is a text model by DeepSeek. 6 providers serve it, from $0.89 to $1.45 /1M; the lowest price is at Hugging Face.
How DeepSeek V3 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.89 /1M against a median of $1.10; 47% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 64K-token context window is larger than 10% of them (median 262K), about 100 pages of text.
- 6 providers serve it; 69% of comparable models have fewer.
DeepSeek V3 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hugging Face | $0.32/1M | From$0.89/1M | — | — |
 Deep Infra | $0.32/1M | From$0.89/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.89/1M | From$0.89/1M | $0.89/1M | 64K |
 Helicone | $0.27/1M | From$1/1M | $0.216/1M | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.272/1M | $1.09/1M | — | — |
| Replicate | $1.45/1M | $1.45/1M | — | — |
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.89
- Deep InfraFrom$0.89
- RequestyFrom$0.89
- HeliconeFrom$1
- AIHubMix$1.09
- Replicate$1.45
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- DeepSeek
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 64K≈ 100 pages of text
- Max output
- 8K
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Dec 25, 2024
- License
- —
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 684B
- Monthly searches
- 9K
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Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3this model | $0.89/1M | 64K | — | 6 |
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| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
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The lowest price for DeepSeek V3 is $0.89 /1M, at Hugging Face.
Hugging Face, at $0.89 /1M. 6 providers serve DeepSeek V3; the table above lists every one with its price.
DeepSeek V3 reads up to 64K tokens per request and writes up to 8K.
Yes. DeepSeek V3's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the — license.
About 684B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
6 API providers serve DeepSeek V3. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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