Model

DeepSeek-V3 671B

OPEN

DeepSeek · DeepSeek-V3 family · released Dec 26, 2024

671B/37B MoE trained on 14.8T tokens for ~$5.6M (2.788M H800 GPU-hours); matched GPT-4o/Claude 3.5 quality at a fraction of the cost.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

1269.5

Elo · rank #163

Parameters

671B

Active params

37B (MoE)

Context

128K tokens

Architecture

MoE transformer, 671B total / 37B active — DeepSeekMoE + MLA + multi-token prediction, auxiliary-loss-free load balancing

License

DeepSeek Model License (code: MIT)

Languages

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API price (in/out)

$0.2 / $0.8

Modalities

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Benchmark results

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

Aider PolyglotCoding49.6%#26

best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 89.4%

AIMEMath39.2%#127

best: GPT-5.2 · 100.0%

AlpacaEvalHuman preference70.0%#9

best: Tülu 2+DPO 70B · 95.1%

Arena-HardHuman preference85.5%#21

best: Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking) · 96.1%

C-EvalKnowledge86.5%#21

best: Qwen3.6-Plus · 93.3%

DROPReasoning91.6#4

best: Hunyuan-T1 · 93.1

GPQA DiamondReasoning59.1%#168

best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%

HumanEvalCoding82.6%#47

best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 99.4%

IFEvalReasoning86.1%#49

best: Gemma 4 26B A4B · 98.5%

LiveCodeBenchCoding37.6%#136

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

MATH-500Math90.2%#46

best: GPT-5 · 99.4%

MMLU-ProKnowledge75.9%#71

best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%

MMLU-ReduxKnowledge89.1%#26

best: Qwen3.7-Max · 95.0%

MMLUKnowledge88.5%#22

best: OpenAI o3 · 92.9%

SimpleQAKnowledge24.9%#19

best: GPT-4.5 · 62.5%

SWE-bench VerifiedCoding42.0%#100

best: Claude Fable 5 · 95.0%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

400 GB

VRAM @ FP16

1342 GB

Fits on (Q4)

Multi-node cluster required

671B total params vastly exceed a single RTX 4090's 24GB even at 4-bit; requires a multi-GPU cluster or heavy CPU/RAM offload

Quantizations

GGUF · 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 GHdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 DOCSapi-docs.deepseek.com APIAvailable via DeepSeek API

API price $0.2/$0.8 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)