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DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus: price, performance and context

Open DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus by DeepSeek costs $0.27 per 1M input and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 163.8K tokens in one request (≈ 490 pages of text) and scores 14.8 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 119 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:37 UTC · deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.27
Output / 1M tokens
$1.00
Context window
163.8K tokens
Max. output
147.5K tokens
Performance index
14.8 points · rank 119 of 212
Coding index
43.5 points · rank 68 of 119
Agentic index
6.8 points · rank 60 of 91
Cost at your usage
$0.52 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025
In the catalog since
Sep 22, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00117,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0021,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0017,200
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0024,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.029340

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