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DeepSeek · DeepSeek · Reviewed 2026-09-11

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek's flagship open-weight Mixture-of-Experts language model with 671B total parameters, 37B active parameters, Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), and FP8 mixed precision training.

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Status
active
Released
2024-12-26
Context
131,072 tokens
Parameters
671B total · 37B active
Inputs
Text
Type
text
Max output
8,192 tokens
API model ID
deepseek-chat
Reasoning
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Knowledge cutoff
2024-07
Training cutoff
2024-07
Weights / license
Available · DeepSeek Model License
Price / 1M tokens
$0.14 in · $0.28 out
Cached input
$0.014
Open-weight architecture rivaling leading closed frontier modelsExceptional cost efficiency via Multi-head Latent Attention and FP8 executionStrong reported mathematics and coding performance (MATH-500: 90.2%, HumanEval-Mul: 82.6%)
CodingReasoningResearchMultimodalAgentic

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Raw benchmark results

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3 results
BenchmarkScoreSourceEvaluation notes
GPQA / GPQA DiamondChecked 2026-09-11 59.1% DeepSeek AI GPQA Diamond Pass@1 score from the official DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.
MMLU-ProChecked 2026-09-11 75.9% DeepSeek AI MMLU-Pro 5-shot accuracy from the official DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.
SWE-bench VerifiedChecked 2026-09-11 42% DeepSeek AI SWE-bench Verified resolved rate with Agentless framework from the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Strengths

  • Open-weight architecture rivaling leading closed frontier models
  • Exceptional cost efficiency via Multi-head Latent Attention and FP8 execution
  • Strong reported mathematics and coding performance (MATH-500: 90.2%, HumanEval-Mul: 82.6%)

Limitations

  • Text-only base model without native image or audio modalities
  • High memory bandwidth requirements for unquantized local hosting

Model evidence · paper · Checked 2026-09-11

DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

Official DeepSeek-V3 technical report with architecture details (MLA, DeepSeekMoE, FP8) and academic benchmark evaluations.

Model evidence · official · Checked 2026-09-11

DeepSeek-V3 model card

Official open-weights repository and model card for DeepSeek-V3.

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