DeepSeek Chat (V3) is a general-purpose Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek, pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens. It delivers strong performance across reasoning, math, and code generation tasks at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models.
Quick Reference
Property
Value
Model ID
deepseek/deepseek-chat
Context window
128,000 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Streaming
✓
Function calling
✓
Structured output
✓
Batch API
✓
Pricing
Type
Price
Input
$0.04 / 1M tokens / 1M tokens
Output
$0.06 / 1M tokens / 1M tokens
Strengths
Cost-effective — Frontier-level performance at competitive pricing
Reasoning — Strong analytical and logical capabilities
Math — Solid mathematical problem solving
Coding — Reliable code generation for common tasks
Example
from openai import OpenAIclient = OpenAI( base_url="https://openapi.linkwo.ai/v1", api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")response = client.chat.completions.create( model="deepseek/deepseek-chat", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to find the longest common subsequence of two strings."} ], temperature=0.3)print(response.choices[0].message.content)