# DeepSeek V3 Review & Benchmarks (2026): Price, Context, Specs | Alher Tech

> DeepSeek V3 by DeepSeek: benchmarks, pricing, context window, strengths and use cases. Data from official benchmark sources.

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Last updated: August 10, 2026

## Specs

- **Vendor**: DeepSeek
- **Released**: December 26, 2024
- **Context window**: 128K tokens
- **Input**: $0.26 / M tokens
- **Output**: $1.03 / M tokens

## Benchmarks

- **mmlu**: 88.5
- **gpqa**: 59.1
- **humanEval**: 86
- **arenaElo**: 1355
- **sweBench**: 42
- **sweBenchPro**: 32
- **liveCodeBench**: 60
- **aiderPolyglot**: 49.6
- **terminalBench**: 22
- **mmluPro**: 75.9
- **hle**: 5
- **aime**: 59.4
- **math500**: 90.2

## Strengths

- Very low price with GPT-4-class chat quality
- Open weights, self-host on your own hardware
- Strong code generation for its price

## Weaknesses

- Not a reasoning-first model (use R1 for that)
- No native multimodal
- Tool use less polished than OpenAI/Anthropic

## Best for

- High-volume chat with tight unit economics
- Self-hosted chat deployments
- Content generation at scale

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