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DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeekReleased 26 Dec 2024Open
116105–128Index score#145 of 229 models
2/ 8Core tests taken2 of 6 areas · plus 6 anchor tests
−20Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o1Replaced by DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
$0.26/ $1.03Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
164KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o1-mini reached this score 3 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
57%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsno evidence yet
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksevidence
METR time horizon
18 min

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025); it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released26 Dec 2024
Release entryDeepSeek-V3
Scored asDeepSeek-V3
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

DeepSeek releasesaround this one