DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek V3 0324 is a text-in, text-out model with a 163,840-token context window and support for tool calling. It does not offer native reasoning mode, and structured output support is unconfirmed. The 16,384-token output ceiling is adequate for most generation tasks but worth checking against any batch-heavy workloads. At $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.77 per million output tokens, it sits in the budget-to-mid tier for capable text models. Its blended benchmark score of 53.1 is drawn from a single benchmark (aider_polyglot at 48.4), so cross-task performance is largely unproven at this time. Teams doing code-heavy work may find that single benchmark informative, but buyers who need broader coverage across reasoning, instruction-following, or domain knowledge should treat it as a preliminary signal and run their own evals before committing.