DeepSeek V3 0324
DeepSeekReleased Mar 24, 2025Open weights · MITdeepseek-chat-v3
- Reasoning
- no
- Knowledge cutoff
- March 2026
- Context
- 164K tokens
- Input
- text
- API features
- tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, seed, logprobs
Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from DeepSeek · cutoff: aiknowledgecutoff.com
The cheapest host, DeepInfra, serves fp4 weights (maker: fp8). Cheapest at the maker's precision and context: SiliconFlow, $1.25 blended. Weights and context per host
- Parameters
- 671B
- 37B active per token (MoE)
- Memory needed
- 403 GB
- in INT4 · 805 GB in INT8
- Smallest cloud setup
- 8× H100
- 640 GB · $17.20/h, about $12,556 a month
- Worth it above
- 11B tokens
- a month, against the cheapest API at $1.14 per M
| Quantization | Memory | Smallest cloud GPU | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| INT4 (Q4) | 403 GB | 8× H100 · $17.20/h | smallest footprint, minor quality loss |
| INT8 (Q8) | 805 GB | multi-node, over 640 GB | near-lossless |
| FP16 (full) | 1610 GB | multi-node, over 640 GB | reference quality |
At home: 403 GB in INT4 is beyond any desktop or Mac in our machines table, so it means a multi-GPU server.
Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | tok/s | First token | Uptime 24h | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GMICloudfp8 · 125K ctx (160K) | $0.29 | $1.14 | $0.11 | 25 | 2.08 s | 99.9% | Oct 23 |
| DeepInfrafp4 (fp8) · 160K ctx | $0.24 | $0.90 | $0.14 | — | — | 94.9% | Sep 29 |
| Crusoe160K ctx | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.25 | — | — | 100% | Sep 14 |
| SiliconFlowfp8 · 160K ctx | $0.25 | $1.00 | — | 22 | 1.91 s | 100% | Oct 23 |
4 of 4 providers · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | fp4 | 160K | not stated by the host | — | — | — |
| SiliconFlow | fp8 | 160K | not read: host terms | yes | yes | no |
| GMICloud | fp8 | 125K | not read: host terms | no | yes | no |
| Crusoe | not checked yet | 160K | not checked yet | — | — | — |
Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us
DeepSeek V3 0324 spec sheet, field by field, with sources
DeepSeek V3 0324 spec sheetmaker-declared
What DeepSeek declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- 163,840 tokens
- Parameters
- 684,531,386,000≈ 684.5B
- Active experts
- 8 of 256 active per token
- Weight precision
- fp8
- License
- MIT — open weights, permissivecurated · read 2026-09-07Scope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- not published by the maker≈ March 2026 third-party estimate — not the maker's figurecurated
- Modalities
- text
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ March 24, 2025 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
Also declared in the weights
- Architecture class
- DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
- Layers
- 61
- Vocabulary
- 129,280 tokens
- Weights first published
- March 24, 2025
- Weights last updated
- March 27, 2025
- Paper
- arXiv:2412.19437
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 · config.json @ e9b33ad · read 2026-10-08 · 6 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.69 | $2.37 | $1.86 |
| SiliconFlow | $0.75 | $2.50 | $2.00 |
| GMICloud | $0.86 | $2.89 | $2.30 |
| Crusoe | $1.25 | $4.75 | $3.50 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
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