DeepSeek Coder V2

Newer version available: DeepSeek V4 Pro

Released
2024-06-17
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 10d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: permittedCodingLong context
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Specifications
Released
2024-06-17
Context
128K
Parameters
236B
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff
2023-11
Specialization
code
Openness
Open weights
License
DeepSeek LicensePermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by
DeepSeek

Advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

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.

Providers

No active provider routes are tracked for this model.

Deprecated provider routes(2)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
DeepSeek Platform
DeprecatedRetired September 5, 2024
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Fireworks AI
Deprecated
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Available via routers & gateways(4)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-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.

Free OSSDeepSeek Platform

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified 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.

PassthroughDeepSeek PlatformFireworks AI

Requesty

Hybrid

AI gateway to 400+ LLM providers with intelligent routing, caching, guardrails, and governance; flat 5% markup on model costs with no subscription fee.

Passthrough + feeDeepSeek Platform

Respan

Hybrid

Unified LLM engineering platform (gateway + observability + evals + prompt management) routing across 250+ models; previously Keywords AI, rebranded February 2026.

SubscriptionDeepSeek Platform

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
Chatbot Arena
1265.0text_style_control overall 2026-10-22 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'DeepSeek-Coder-V2': rank 316, Arena Score 1265.4 (95% CI 1259.1-1271.7), 15147 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

Migration checks

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