DeepSeek OCR 2
DeepSeek OCR 2 is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- DeepSeek OCR
- Released
- 2026-01-28
- Context
- 8k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI
About
DeepSeek OCR 2 is the second-generation OCR vision-language model from DeepSeek, introducing Visual Causal Flow as a key innovation for improved document understanding and recognition. Released with arXiv paper 2601.20552 (January 2026). 1.5M+ downloads per month on HuggingFace.
DeepSeek OCR 2 is an open-source model in the DeepSeek OCR family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Novita AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.03 input and $0.03 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek OCR 2 yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.030 | $0.030 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
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 OCR 2?
DeepSeek OCR 2 has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does DeepSeek OCR 2 cost?
DeepSeek OCR 2 is available at $0.03/1M input tokens through Novita AI.
When was DeepSeek OCR 2 released?
DeepSeek OCR 2 was released on 2026-01-28.
Which providers offer DeepSeek OCR 2?
DeepSeek OCR 2 is available from 1 provider: Novita AI.
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI