DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek V3 0324 is a text-only model from DeepSeek with a 163,840-token context window and a 16,384-token output ceiling. It supports tool use, but does not offer native reasoning or structured output. Input is text only, so users working with images or audio will need to look elsewhere. At $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.77 per million output tokens, this model sits at the affordable end of the market, which makes cost a genuine argument in its favor. Its blended benchmark score of 53.1 comes from a single benchmark (aider_polyglot at 48.4), so that figure reflects a narrow slice of performance rather than broad validation. Teams doing code-heavy work on a budget may find it worth evaluating, but anyone needing confidence across diverse tasks should treat the benchmark coverage as thin and test against their own use cases before committing.