DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Capability, benchmark, and verified hosting price comparison.
Quick verdict
- Cheapest hosting
- DeepSeek V3— $0.477 vs $3.000 / 1M blended tokens
- Context window
- Llama 3.1 405B Instruct— 131,072 tokens vs 65,536
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 V3
by DeepSeek AI · DeepSeek
- Context
- 65,536 tokens
- Open weight
- Yes
- License
- DeepSeek License v1.0
- Params
- 671.0B
- Modalities
- text
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
by Meta · Llama 3.1
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Open weight
- Yes
- License
- Llama 3.1 Community License
- Params
- 405.0B
- Modalities
- text
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | Llama 3.1 405B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 0.825 | — |
| MMLU | 0.887 | — |
Cheapest verified hosting
DeepSeek V3 cheapest
$0.477/ 1M tokens (blended)
- Input
- $0.270
- Output
- $1.100
- Context
- 65,536 tok
- Latency p50
- 480 ms
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct cheapest
$3.000/ 1M tokens (blended)
- Input
- $3.000
- Output
- $3.000
- Context
- 131,072 tok
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