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DeepSeek R1 vs DeepSeek V3

Capability, benchmark, and verified hosting price comparison.

Quick verdict

Benchmark wins
DeepSeek R1— leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks
Cheapest hosting
DeepSeek V3— $0.477 vs $0.960 / 1M blended tokens

Derived from public benchmarks and verified hosting prices. Benchmark wins count only where both models have a score; direction respects each benchmark’s higher-is-better flag.

DeepSeek R1

by DeepSeek AI · DeepSeek

Context
65,536 tokens
Open weight
Yes
License
MIT
Params
671.0B
Modalities
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DeepSeek V3

by DeepSeek AI · DeepSeek

Context
65,536 tokens
Open weight
Yes
License
DeepSeek License v1.0
Params
671.0B
Modalities
text

Benchmarks

BenchmarkDeepSeek R1DeepSeek V3
HumanEval0.8910.825
MMLU0.9030.887

Cheapest verified hosting

DeepSeek R1 cheapest
DeepSeek
$0.960/ 1M tokens (blended)
Input
$0.550
Output
$2.190
Context
65,536 tok
Latency p50
920 ms
DeepSeek V3 cheapest
DeepSeek
$0.477/ 1M tokens (blended)
Input
$0.270
Output
$1.100
Context
65,536 tok
Latency p50
480 ms