DeepSeek V3
Open SourceDeepSeek•Released on 2026-01-15
Chinese AI rising star, priced at 1/100 of Claude. HN users praise its coding ability approaching top closed-source models with unbeatable value. Ideal for cost-sensitive scenarios and large-scale API calls.
78
Overall Score
Voice of the community
sample 1,089“DeepSeek V3 is now amazing for coding after the 'minor' update!”
“DeepSeek V3-0324 offers significant improvements for coding tasks while being up to 53x cheaper than Claude 3.7 Sonnet with competitive performance.”
“VSCode + Cline + DeepSeek v3 is an impressive open-source alternative to Windsurf/Cursor. The ability to deploy locally makes it excellent.”
Core Specs
128K
Context Window
32K
Max Output
ReasoningOpen Sourcetext
Scenario Scores
Pros & Cons
Sentiment65% +20% ·15% −
Pros
- +Extremely low price
- +Open source & self-hostable
- +Strong coding ability
- +Fast inference
Cons
- −No multimodal
- −Chinese-centric
- −Service stability unproven
Pricing
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.32
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.89
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Updated on 2026-03-06
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Benchmarks
sweBench65%
mmlu88.5%
humanEval91%