DeepSeek Coder V2
DeepSeek Coder V2 is worth evaluating for coding and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding and long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- DeepSeek Coder V2
- Released
- 2024-06-17
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 236B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-11
- Specialization
- code
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- DeepSeek LicenseCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · DeepSeek Platform
About
DeepSeek Coder V2 is a language model from DeepSeek focused on code generation and software engineering. It offers a 128K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Platform | $0.140 | $0.280 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $1.20 | $1.20 | ServerlessProvisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(4)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Requesty
HybridAI gateway to 400+ LLM providers with intelligent routing, caching, guardrails, and governance; flat 5% markup on model costs with no subscription fee.
Respan
HybridUnified LLM engineering platform (gateway + observability + evals + prompt management) routing across 250+ models; previously Keywords AI, rebranded February 2026.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 2 routes · DeepSeek Platform