diff --git a/examples/deepseek-v3/full-ft.yaml b/examples/deepseek-v3/full-ft.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dec8ab7c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/deepseek-v3/full-ft.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Example full fine-tuning config for a DeepSeek-V3 MoE model using Axolotl's
+# vendored Triton contiguous grouped GEMM kernels.
+# Replace `your-org/deepseek-v3-model` with the name of the model you uploaded to HF.
+
+base_model: axolotl-ai-co/deepseek-v3-8b
+model_config_type: deepseek_v3
+trust_remote_code: true
+moe_kernels: true
+
+# --- Data ------------------------------------------------------------------
+datasets:
+  - path: tatsu-lab/alpaca
+    type: alpaca
+
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/deepseek-v3/full-ft
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+
+# --- Optimisation ----------------------------------------------------------
+num_epochs: 1
+micro_batch_size: 1
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+weight_decay: 0.01
+
+# --- Precision & Performance -----------------------------------------------
+bf16: auto
+flash_attention: true
+
+# enable GC to keep activation memory manageable for the MoE blocks
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+
+# Axolotl automatically applies the DeepSeek-V3 MoE monkeypatch when
+# model_config_type is set to `deepseek_v3`, routing matmuls through the
+# vendored Triton kernels.
+
+# --- Logging & Saving ------------------------------------------------------
+logging_steps: 1
+evals_per_epoch: 2
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+# Uncomment the section below for multi-GPU training with FSDP
+# fsdp:
+#   - full_shard
+#   - auto_wrap
+# fsdp_config:
+#   fsdp_limit_all_gathers: true
+#   fsdp_sync_module_states: true
+#   fsdp_offload_params: true
+#   fsdp_use_orig_params: false
+#   fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
+#   fsdp_auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+#   fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: DeepseekV3MoE
+#   fsdp_state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+#   fsdp_sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+
+# wandb_project:
+# wandb_entity:
+# wandb_name:
diff --git a/scripts/benchmarks/deepseek_v3_group_gemm_table.py b/scripts/benchmarks/deepseek_v3_group_gemm_table.py
index d029ad21d..e0aae9cda 100644
--- a/scripts/benchmarks/deepseek_v3_group_gemm_table.py
+++ b/scripts/benchmarks/deepseek_v3_group_gemm_table.py
@@ -34,8 +34,15 @@ SCENARIOS: tuple[Scenario, ...] = (
 
 def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
-    parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda", choices=["cuda"], help="Execution device")
-    parser.add_argument("--dtype", default="bf16", choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"], help="Computation dtype")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--device", default="cuda", choices=["cuda"], help="Execution device"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--dtype",
+        default="bf16",
+        choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"],
+        help="Computation dtype",
+    )
     parser.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=5, help="Warmup iterations")
     parser.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=20, help="Benchmark iterations")
     parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=0, help="Random seed")
@@ -56,7 +63,9 @@ def pick_dtype(name: str) -> torch.dtype:
     }[name]
 
 
-def make_indices(num_groups: int, group_size: int, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor:
+def make_indices(
+    num_groups: int, group_size: int, device: torch.device
+) -> torch.Tensor:
     indices = torch.arange(num_groups, device=device, dtype=torch.int32)
     return indices.repeat_interleave(group_size)
 
@@ -82,7 +91,9 @@ def run_scenario(
     group_size_m: int,
 ) -> dict:
     if scenario.m % scenario.num_groups != 0:
-        raise ValueError(f"M ({scenario.m}) not divisible by groups ({scenario.num_groups})")
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"M ({scenario.m}) not divisible by groups ({scenario.num_groups})"
+        )
     group_size = scenario.m // scenario.num_groups
     if group_size % group_size_m != 0:
         raise ValueError(
@@ -90,7 +101,9 @@ def run_scenario(
         )
 
     inputs = torch.randn(scenario.m, scenario.k, device=device, dtype=dtype)
-    weights = torch.randn(scenario.num_groups, scenario.n, scenario.k, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    weights = torch.randn(
+        scenario.num_groups, scenario.n, scenario.k, device=device, dtype=dtype
+    )
     indices = make_indices(scenario.num_groups, group_size, device)
 
     def persistent():
diff --git a/src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py b/src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py
index dafa8a28c..446c73640 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py
@@ -190,10 +190,14 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch()
 
-        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "deepseek_v3":
+        if self.cfg.moe_kernels and self.cfg.model_config_type == "deepseek_v3":
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.deepseek_v3 import patch_deepseek_v3_moe
 
             patch_deepseek_v3_moe()
+        elif self.cfg.model_config_type == "deepseek_v3" and not self.cfg.moe_kernels:
+            LOG.info(
+                "Skipping DeepSeek V3 Triton MoE kernels; enable with `moe_kernels: true`"
+            )
 
     def _apply_fp8_patches(self):
         """Apply patches for FP8 support."""
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
index 0177b19f6..20698d920 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
             "description": "Don't upcast the embeddings to float32 when using PEFT. Useful for low-VRAM GPUs"
         },
     )
+    moe_kernels: bool = Field(
+        default=False,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "Enable Axolotl's vendored MoE kernels when supported (e.g., DeepSeek V3)"
+        },
+    )
     reinit_weights: bool | None = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={