Model

DeepSeek-V3-0324

OPEN

DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V3 family · released Mar 24, 2025

March 2025 refresh of V3 with big reasoning/math/coding/front-end gains (AIME 39.6 to 59.4) and improved function calling and JSON output; MIT-licensed.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

1365.5

Elo · rank #144

Parameters

671B

Active params

37B (MoE)

Context

128K tokens

Architecture

DeepSeekMoE: 256 routed + 1 shared expert, top-8 routing, 61 layers (3 dense + 58 MoE), Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA)

License

MIT

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$0.27 / $1.1

Modalities

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Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

Aider PolyglotCoding55.1%#21

best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 89.4%

AIMEMath59.4%#112

best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%

Arena EloHuman preference1396#24

best: Claude Fable 5 · 1505

GAIAAgents29.4%#11

best: MiniMax-M2 · 75.7%

GDPval-AAAgents500#37

best: Claude Fable 5 · 1932

GPQA DiamondReasoning65.0%#146

best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%

Humanity's Last ExamReasoning5.0%#118

best: Claude Sonnet 5 · 57.4%

IFBenchReasoning41.0%#43

best: MiniMax M3 · 83.0%

LiveCodeBenchCoding49.2%#121

best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%

MATH-500Math94.0%#38

best: GPT-5 · 99.4%

MMLU-ProKnowledge81.2%#51

best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%

PutnamBenchMath0.0%#8

best: DeepSeek-Prover-V2 671B · 7.1%

SWE-bench VerifiedCoding38.8%#105

best: Claude Fable 5 · 95.0%

Terminal-Bench 2.0Coding14.0%#58

best: GPT-5.6 · 88.8%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

404 GB

VRAM @ FP16

1342 GB

Fits on (Q4)

Multi-node cluster required

671B MoE far exceeds a single 24GB 4090; typically deployed on multi-GPU servers or via CPU-offload dynamic GGUF quants (~150-250GB range).

Quantizations

GGUF Q4_K_M · AWQ · MLX

DeepSeek-V3 family

Elo progression across releases

DeepSeek-V3 671BDec 20241269.5 DeepSeek-V3-0324Mar 20251365.5 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Non-Thinking)Aug 20251538.3 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)Aug 20251903.9 DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpSep 20251875.1

Resources

HFdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 GHdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 DOCSapi-docs.deepseek.com APIAvailable via DeepSeek API

API price $0.27/$1.1 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)