LLM: DeepSeek

Developer

DeepSeek

Initial Release

2023-11-29

Overview

DeepSeek currently offers V3 and R1 models, both of which are highly efficient and performant. V3 is comparable to models such as Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5, while R1 is comparable to models such as OpenAI's o1.

Description

DeepSeek is a Chinese startup that began releasing LLMs in 2023 with DeepSeek Coder. In rapid succession, DeepSeek has since released more powerful models, most notably releasing DeepSeek V3 at the end of 2024 and DeepSeek R1 at the beginning of 2025. DeepSeek V3 and R1 set the frontier in terms of efficiency while maintaining high performance. The release of V3 and R1 sent shockwaves through the US technology sector, especially given the low cost with which V3 and R1 were trained (orders of magnitude less than the cost of training equivalent US models.)

Open Source

Yes

Instruct Tuned

Yes

Model Sizes

67B, 671B

Finetuning

Yes

License

MIT

Pricing

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

Link

Visit

Further Reading

Unsure? Contact us with a brief description of your use case if you'd like for us to make a snap assessment. Depending on your requirements, a smaller, custom language model may even be the best option.