DeepSeek-V3

Run DeepSeek-V3 with exceptional reasoning on Clore.ai GPUs

Run DeepSeek-V3, the state-of-the-art open-source LLM with exceptional reasoning capabilities on CLORE.AI GPUs.

All examples can be run on GPU servers rented through CLORE.AI Marketplace.

Updated: DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2024) — The latest revision of DeepSeek-V3 brings significant improvements in code generation, mathematical reasoning, and general problem-solving. See the changelog section for details.

Why DeepSeek-V3?

• State-of-the-art - Competes with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet

• 671B MoE - 671B total params, 37B active per token (efficient inference)

• Improved reasoning - DeepSeek-V3-0324 is significantly better at math and code

• Efficient - MoE architecture reduces compute costs vs dense models

• Open source - Fully open weights under MIT license

• Long context - 128K token context window

What's New in DeepSeek-V3-0324

DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2024 revision) introduces meaningful improvements across key domains:

Code Generation

• +8-12% on HumanEval compared to original V3

• Better at multi-file codebases and complex refactoring tasks

• Improved understanding of modern frameworks (FastAPI, Pydantic v2, LangChain v0.3)

• More reliable at generating complete, runnable code without omissions

Mathematical Reasoning

• +5% on MATH-500 benchmark

• Better step-by-step proof construction

• Improved numerical accuracy for multi-step problems

• Enhanced ability to identify and correct mistakes mid-solution

General Reasoning

• Stronger logical deduction and causal inference

• Better at multi-step planning tasks

• More consistent performance on edge cases and ambiguous prompts

• Improved instruction following on complex, multi-constraint requests

Quick Deploy on CLORE.AI

Docker Image:

vllm/vllm-openai:latest

Ports:

22/tcp
8000/http

Command (Multi-GPU Required):

python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 8000 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
    --trust-remote-code

Accessing Your Service

After deployment, find your http_pub URL in My Orders:

1. Go to My Orders page

2. Click on your order

3. Find the http_pub URL (e.g., abc123.clorecloud.net)

Use https://YOUR_HTTP_PUB_URL instead of localhost in examples below.

Verify It's Working

# Check if service is ready
curl https://your-http-pub.clorecloud.net/health

# List available models
curl https://your-http-pub.clorecloud.net/v1/models

# Get version
curl https://your-http-pub.clorecloud.net/version

Important: DeepSeek-V3 requires 8x A100 80GB GPUs and significant download time. HTTP 502 may persist for 15-30 minutes while the model downloads.

Model Variants

Model	Parameters	Active	VRAM Required	HuggingFace
DeepSeek-V3-0324	671B	37B	8x80GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
DeepSeek-V3	671B	37B	8x80GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek-V3-Base	671B	37B	8x80GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base
DeepSeek-V2.5	236B	21B	4x80GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	16B	2.4B	16GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite
DeepSeek-Coder-V2	236B	21B	4x80GB	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct

Hardware Requirements

Multi-GPU 80GB-class rigs are not listed on the Clore.ai marketplace. The biggest boxes listed today are 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (96GB each, 380GB total) and 8–11× RTX 5090 (32GB each). A100 / H200 / B200 capacity is sold as bare metal on request. Check GPU Pricing & Availability before sizing a deployment.

Full Precision

Model	Minimum	Recommended
DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x A100 80GB	8x H100 80GB
DeepSeek-V2.5	4x A100 80GB	4x H100 80GB
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	RTX 4090 24GB	A100 40GB

Quantized (AWQ/GPTQ)

Model	Quantization	VRAM
DeepSeek-V3-0324	INT4	4x80GB
DeepSeek-V2.5	INT4	2x80GB
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	INT4	8GB

Installation

Using vLLM (Recommended)

pip install vllm==0.7.3

# DeepSeek-V3-0324 (latest, 8 GPUs)
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 8000

# Original V3 (still available)
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 8000

Using Transformers

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms."}]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=512, temperature=0.7)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Using Ollama

# Pull DeepSeek-V3 (requires significant resources)
ollama pull deepseek-v3

# Or lighter variant
ollama pull deepseek-coder-v2:16b

# Run
ollama run deepseek-v3

API Usage

OpenAI-Compatible API (vLLM)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
    api_key="not-needed"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful AI assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write a Python function to find prime numbers."}
    ],
    temperature=0.7,
    max_tokens=1000
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Streaming

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain machine learning"}],
    stream=True
)

for chunk in stream:
    if chunk.choices[0].delta.content:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="", flush=True)

cURL

curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
        "messages": [
            {"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}
        ],
        "temperature": 0.7
    }'

DeepSeek-V2-Lite (Single GPU)

For users with limited hardware:

# Using vLLM
python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite \
    --trust-remote-code \
    --host 0.0.0.0

# Using Ollama
ollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b

# Using Transformers on single GPU
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="cuda",
    trust_remote_code=True
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite", trust_remote_code=True)

Code Generation

DeepSeek-V3-0324 is best-in-class for code:

prompt = """Write a Python class for a binary search tree with:
- insert
- search
- delete
- in-order traversal
Include type hints and docstrings."""

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    temperature=0.2  # Lower for code
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Advanced code tasks where V3-0324 excels:

# Multi-file refactoring
prompt = """I have a Flask application with all code in app.py (500 lines).
Refactor it to use the application factory pattern with blueprints for:
- auth (login, register, logout)
- api (REST endpoints)
- admin (dashboard)
Show the complete file structure and all files."""

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    temperature=0.1,
    max_tokens=4000
)

Math & Reasoning

# Complex math problem
prompt = """Prove that for any integer n >= 1, the sum 1^2 + 2^2 + ... + n^2 = n(n+1)(2n+1)/6.
Use mathematical induction and show all steps clearly."""

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    temperature=0.1  # Very low for math
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Multi-GPU Configuration

8x GPU (Full Model — V3-0324)

python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
    --max-model-len 32768 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
    --trust-remote-code

4x GPU (V2.5)

python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
    --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
    --max-model-len 16384 \
    --trust-remote-code

Performance

Throughput (tokens/sec)

Model	GPUs	Context	Tokens/sec
DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x H100	32K	~85
DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x A100 80GB	32K	~52
DeepSeek-V3-0324 INT4	4x A100 80GB	16K	~38
DeepSeek-V2.5	4x A100 80GB	16K	~70
DeepSeek-V2.5	2x A100 80GB	8K	~45
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	RTX 4090	8K	~40
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	RTX 3090	4K	~25

Time to First Token (TTFT)

Model	Configuration	TTFT
DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x H100	~750ms
DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x A100	~1100ms
DeepSeek-V2.5	4x A100	~500ms
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	RTX 4090	~150ms

Memory Usage

Model	Precision	VRAM Required
DeepSeek-V3-0324	FP16	8x 80GB
DeepSeek-V3-0324	INT4	4x 80GB
DeepSeek-V2.5	FP16	4x 80GB
DeepSeek-V2.5	INT4	2x 80GB
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	FP16	20GB
DeepSeek-V2-Lite	INT4	10GB

Benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3-0324 vs Competition

Benchmark	V3-0324	V3 (original)	GPT-4o	Claude 3.5 Sonnet
MMLU	88.5%	87.1%	88.7%	88.3%
HumanEval	90.2%	82.6%	90.2%	92.0%
MATH-500	67.1%	61.6%	76.6%	71.1%
GSM8K	92.1%	89.3%	95.8%	96.4%
LiveCodeBench	72.4%	65.9%	71.3%	73.8%
Codeforces Rating	1850	1720	1780	1790

Note: MATH-500 improvement from V3 → V3-0324 is +5.5 percentage points.

Docker Compose

version: '3.8'

services:
  deepseek:
    image: vllm/vllm-openai:latest
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface
    environment:
      - HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN}
    command: >
      --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite
      --host 0.0.0.0
      --port 8000
      --trust-remote-code
      --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: all
              capabilities: [gpu]

GPU Requirements Summary

Use Case	Recommended Setup	Cost/Hour
Full DeepSeek-V3-0324	8x A100 80GB	~$2.00
DeepSeek-V2.5	4x A100 80GB	~$1.00
Development/Testing	RTX 4090 (V2-Lite)	~$0.10
Production API	8x H100 80GB	~$3.00

Cost Estimate

Typical CLORE.AI marketplace rates:

GPU Configuration	Hourly Rate	Daily Rate
RTX 4090 24GB	~$0.10	~$2.30
A100 40GB	~$0.17	~$4.00
A100 80GB	~$0.25	~$6.00
4x A100 80GB	~$1.00	~$24.00
8x A100 80GB	~$2.00	~$48.00

Prices vary by provider. Check CLORE.AI Marketplace for current rates.

Save money:

• Use the Spot market for development — about a third of servers price spot below on-demand (median ~13% off), the rest match it

• Pay with CLORE tokens

• Use DeepSeek-V2-Lite for testing before scaling up

Troubleshooting

Out of Memory

# Reduce context length
--max-model-len 8192

# Or use quantization
--quantization awq

# For V2-Lite on 12GB GPU
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.85
--max-model-len 4096

Model Download Slow

# Pre-download
huggingface-cli download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324

# Or use mirror
export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com

trust_remote_code Error

# Always include this flag for DeepSeek models
--trust-remote-code

Multi-GPU Not Working

# Check NCCL
nvidia-smi topo -m

# Set NCCL variables
export NCCL_DEBUG=INFO
export NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=0

DeepSeek vs Others

Feature	DeepSeek-V3-0324	Llama 3.1 405B	Mixtral 8x22B
Parameters	671B (37B active)	405B	176B (44B active)
Context	128K	128K	64K
Code	Excellent	Great	Good
Math	Excellent	Good	Good
Min VRAM	8x80GB	8x80GB	2x80GB
License	MIT	Llama 3.1	Apache 2.0

Use DeepSeek-V3 when:

• Best reasoning performance needed

• Code generation is primary use

• Math/logic tasks are important

• Have multi-GPU setup available

• Want fully open-source weights (MIT license)

Next Steps

• vLLM - Deployment server

• DeepSeek-R1 - Reasoning-specialized variant

• DeepSeek Coder - Code-specific variant

• Ollama - Simpler deployment

• Fine-tune LLM - Custom training