DeepSeek V3 vs Grok
DeepSeek V3 is open source and Grok is not. You can run DeepSeek V3 on your own machine or server; Grok is hosted by the vendor.
Which one should you try?
DeepSeek V3
FreemiumBest for Cost-sensitive organizations requiring frontier-class performance
Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.
Grok
Grok is a large language model trained by X.AI that integrates live data from X (formerly Twitter) to answer questions with current context — a meaningful differentiator in a market where most LLMs have knowledge cutoffs. It handles text analysis tasks across languages and connects to X's API, making it useful for monitoring social sentiment or market chatter in real time. The freemium model lets you experiment at no cost, but the free tier is genuinely limited; meaningful API access requires a paid subscription starting around $20/month for the Grok API, or bundled access via X Premium subscriptions. The catch: it remains less widely adopted and benchmarked than OpenAI or Anthropic offerings, so enterprise reliability data is still thin.
| Attribute | DeepSeek V3 | Grok |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Price | $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens | $168/mo |
| Pricing checked | Not checked yet | Apr 10, 2026 |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Has API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted option | Yes | No |
| Platforms | Hugging Face, GitHub, DeepSeek API, multiple cloud providers (Cerebras, DeepInfra, Together, OpenRouter, Fireworks, Hyperbolic, SambaNova) | Web, API |
| Languages | Supports multiple languages, allowing input and output in several languages | 90+ languages |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2023-11 |
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Made up your mind?
DeepSeek V3
FreemiumBest for Cost-sensitive organizations requiring frontier-class performance
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