DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct 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 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 2 routes · Fireworks AI
About
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct is DeepSeek's DeepSeek Coder V2 model 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 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
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 · Fireworks AI