LLM Reference

DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat

Released
2024-01-11
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: permitted

DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat is released 2024-01-11 in the DeepSeek MoE 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
Released
2024-01-11
Context
4k
Parameters
16B
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
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 MoE 16B Chat is DeepSeek's DeepSeek MoE model. Weights are openly available for self-hosting.

DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat is an open-weight model in the DeepSeek MoE family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat 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 MoE 16B Chat?

DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat has a context window of 4k tokens.

When was DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat released?

DeepSeek MoE 16B Chat was released on 2024-01-11.