LLM Reference

DeepSeek 7B

Released
2023-11-29
Last refreshed
2026-04-15
Status
Researched 198d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: permitted

DeepSeek 7B is released 2023-11-29 in the DeepSeek family with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 4k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
DeepSeek
Released
2023-11-29
Context
4k
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-05
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
DeepSeek LicenseCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

DeepSeek LLM 7B is an open-source model boasting 7 billion parameters, designed for multilingual tasks in English and Chinese, having trained on a substantial dataset of 2 trillion tokens 378. It follows an architecture akin to LLaMA's Multi-Head Attention, with variations tailored for different applications like the base and chat models 8. This model excels in benchmarks for language comprehension, reasoning, coding, and mathematics, though its effectiveness can vary based on task complexity and input quality 89. Prompt engineering, especially chain-of-thought prompting, enhances its performance further 1. Despite its strengths, the model's training parameters and some architectural specifics could vary, with full details not always disclosed 78. Expanding the DeepSeek LLM family, the developers have also introduced a larger 67B model and vision-language variants 810.

DeepSeek 7B is an open-weight model in the DeepSeek family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek 7B yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of DeepSeek 7B?

DeepSeek 7B has a context window of 4k tokens.

When was DeepSeek 7B released?

DeepSeek 7B was released on 2023-11-29.