DeepSeek V3 0324
· verified October 3, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index9.7 (official, read October 3, 2026)
Released2025-03-24
Context window164K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.29 / $1.14 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.29/$1.14 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed March 24, 2025
In one line
DeepSeek V3 0324 by DeepSeek, measured by Artificial Analysis at 9.7 on the Intelligence Index, 21.2 on coding and 0.8 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “DeepSeek V3, a 685B-parameter, mixture-of-experts model, is the latest iteration of the flagship chat model family from the DeepSeek team.”
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