DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite is worth evaluating for coding, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
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
- 16B
- 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 1 route · Fireworks AI
About
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model specifically tailored for efficiency and cost-effectiveness in coding tasks. It operates with a 15.7B parameter count, but only 2.4B are active at any given time, making it comparable to GPT4-Turbo for code-centric applications. This model supports 338 programming languages and has an extended context length of 128K tokens, facilitating the handling of complex codebases and lengthy prompts. Its features encompass code generation, completion, understanding, and mathematical reasoning, making it versatile for diverse coding applications.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ B1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ C2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.500 | $0.500 | ServerlessProvisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 52.4 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HellaSwag | 91.4 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| HumanEval | 81.1 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 78.9 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
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Comparison and alternatives
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