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DeepSeek V3.2 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek V3.2 details ·Llama 3.1 70B Instruct details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3.2 is the cheapest — 25% less than the priciest here ($48.28/mo vs $64.00/mo).

 DeepSeek V3.2Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Input / 1M tokens$0.269$0.400
Output / 1M tokens$0.400$0.400
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0005$0.0006
Context window163,840 tokens131,072 tokens
Max output65,536 tokens16,384 tokens
Quality score79/10085/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderDeepSeekMeta

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek V3.2Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
1,000$0.4828$0.64
10,000$4.83$6.40
100,000$48.28$64.00
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DeepSeek V3.2

Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.

Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.