DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev): benchmark scores, price and ranking

DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) from DeepSeek ranks #185 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (50.5), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: DeepSeek
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Released: 2024-12-26 (source: curated)
Aggregate rank: #185 of 743 (score 50.5)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) benchmark results

DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Aider Polyglot	48.4%	#22 of 49	Aider polyglot leaderboard	2026-10-13

About DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev)

DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from DeepSeek. It was released on 2024-12-26, according to the developer's announcement. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) stands

On our aggregate score, DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) is #185 of 743 ranked models, in the top quarter. Its score is 50.5; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 0.5 points above the typical model. That beats 75% of the ranked field. Among the 33 ranked DeepSeek models it is #9. The next one up is DeepSeek V3 0324 at 50.8. The next one down is DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale at 50.4.

DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev), benchmark by benchmark

Aider Polyglot puts DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) at 48.4%, #22 of 49. That beats 55% of the models tested, but 34.7 points short of gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 (83.1%). The results either side are Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022 (51.6%) and gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 (47.1%). It covers edits across 6 languages (225 exercises). The board median is 44.9%, so DeepSeek Chat V3 (prev) is 3.5 points above it. Source: Aider polyglot leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The DeepSeek model released before it was DeepSeek Chat V2.5 on 2024-09-05, which scores 46.3. The next one was DeepSeek-V3 on 2024-12-26, at 45.1.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Aider polyglot leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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