Is deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR cheaper?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper on output tokens ($0.00 vs $1.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 has the larger context window (164K tokens).

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper on output tokens, while deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 offers a larger context window. Choose deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Provider	SiliconFlow (China)	SiliconFlow (China)
Input / 1M tokens	$0.25	$0.00
Output / 1M tokens	$1.00	$0.00
Context window	164K	8K
Parameters	671B	—
Open weights	No	Yes
Released	Dec 2024	Oct 2025

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 details →deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR details →

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