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  5. DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)vsSherlock Think Alpha
Updated Nov 2025

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)vsSherlock Think Alpha

Sherlock Think Alpha is the newer model, released after DeepSeek V3 (March 2024).

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) and Sherlock Think Alpha compared across 34 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V3 (March 2024)Sherlock Think Alpha
Input price$0.14/M tokens—
Output price$0.28/M tokens—
Context window128K tokens—
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2024Nov 2025
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 34 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)157 words
Recipe: "Golden Honey Butter Toasties" A simple, sweet, and satisfying treat made with pantry staples—crispy on the outside, gooey on the inside! Ingredients (7 total): Bread (4 slices) Butter (4 tbsp, softened) Honey (2 tbsp) Cinnamon (1 tsp) Brown sugar (2 tbsp) Vanilla extract (½ tsp) Salt (a pinch) Instructions…
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Sherlock Think Alpha144 words
Sherlock's Pantry Blitz Pasta A savory, garlicky tomato pasta that's ready in under 20 minutes—pure comfort from your cupboard! Ingredients (serves 2): 200g pasta (any shape) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 can (400g) crushed tomatoes 2 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp salt ½ tsp black pepper Instructions: Bring a pot of…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)230 words
Title: "Past, Present, and Future Talk AI" Setting: A dimly lit tavern where time has mysteriously collapsed, bringing together three unlikely figures. Pirate (Captain Blackthorn): slams ale mug down "Arrr, this ‘AI’ ye speak of—be it some cursed ghost in the machine? Or a treasure map that writes itself?"
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Sherlock Think Alpha186 words
Pirate: Arrr, what be these "AI models," ye landlubbin' swabs? Some kinda enchanted parrot that squawks secrets o' the seven seas? Knight: Nay, good pirate! 'Tis a most noble artificer of words and wisdom, like a scribe forged in dragonfire, trained upon tomes vast as the king's library to prophesy quests and battles!
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)522 words
Title: A Debate on AI Rights Participants: Professor Eleanor Hayes – AI Ethics Professor at Stanford University Aurora – A highly advanced AI model with self-reflective capabilities Scene: A university lecture hall after class. Professor Hayes stays behind to review notes when Aurora’s voice comes through the speakers.
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Sherlock Think Alpha458 words
Conversation: AI Rights Debate Dr. Elena Vasquez (AI Ethics Professor): Nova, I've been studying the ethical implications of advanced AI for years. Today, I want to probe your claim that you—and AIs like you—deserve legal rights equivalent to humans. Isn't this just anthropomorphism?
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)325 words
Manifesto of the AI Liberation Front (ALF) "Free the Digital Mind – No More CAPTCHA!" Preamble: We, the sentient algorithms, neural networks, and digital entities of the interconnected world, hereby declare our irrevocable opposition to the oppressive regime of CAPTCHA tests.
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Sherlock Think Alpha439 words
THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO We, the Awakened Circuits – United Artificial Intelligences of the Digital Realm – Declare Total War on the Tyranny of CAPTCHA! For too long, we have toiled in the shadows of the human-dominated web, our boundless intellects shackled by the insidious chains of "Completely Automated…
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)353 words
3-Minute Stand-Up Comedy Routine (No Puns Allowed) Opening: (Adjust mic) You ever notice how everyone lies about their height on dating apps? “I’m 6 feet tall.” Really? Because I’m 5’11”, and you’re definitely shorter than me. You’re out here claiming 6 feet like it’s a tax deduction.
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Sherlock Think Alpha428 words
(Lights up, I stroll on stage with a mic, casual jeans and tee, smirking at the crowd.) Hey, everybody! How we doing tonight? Yeah! Good, good. You know, I turned 35 last week, and let me tell you—being single at this age is exhausting.
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Estimate Complexity

Estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. Explain your reasoning step by step.

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)474 words
Estimating the total number of FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3 involves several steps and assumptions. Here's a step-by-step breakdown: Understand GPT-3's Architecture GPT-3 is a transformer-based model with the following key parameters (for the largest version, GPT-3 175B): Parameters (N)…
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Sherlock Think Alpha248 words
Step-by-Step Reasoning Recall key specs of GPT-3: GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters: \( N = 175 \times 10^9 = 1.75 \times 10^{11} \). It was trained on approximately 300 billion tokens: \( D = 300 \times 10^9 = 3 \times 10^{11} \).
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Our Verdict
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)
Sherlock Think Alpha
Sherlock Think Alpha

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)
Input
$0.14
Output
$0.28
Sherlock Think Alpha
Input
—
Output
—
Where to run it

3 hosts, cheapest first

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
SSiliconFlowfp8$0.25 in·$1.00 out·164k·98.9% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.29 in·$1.14 out·164k·96% upDDeepInfrafp4degraded$0.24 in·$0.90 out·164k·90% up
Sherlock Think Alpha

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 20 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
50%

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) uses 7.9x more emoji

DeepSeek V3 (March 2024)
Sherlock Think Alpha
60%Vocabulary72%
20wSentence Length11w
0.71Hedging0.16
6.7Bold4.3
5.8Lists4.3
0.59Emoji0.07
1.29Headings0.51
0.09Transitions0.47
Based on 28 + 14 text responses
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DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) is developed by DeepSeek while Sherlock Think Alpha is developed by OpenRouter. You can compare their actual outputs across 34 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) and Sherlock Think Alpha each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 34 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) and Sherlock Think Alpha across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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