DeepSeek R1 vs V3 for Voice AI Developers

DeepSeek V3 processes 47% more tokens per second than R1 at $0.28 per million output tokens, while R1 costs $2.19 per million and runs internal reasoning loops for harder tasks. R1 scores 97.3% on MATH-500 and 79.8% on AIME 2024 versus V3's 90.2% and 39.2%. Most teams route 80-90% of simple queries to V3 and send complex reasoning work to R1.