DeepSeek V2 Lite
Released
2024-05-16
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 115d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: permitted
DeepSeek V2 Lite is released 2024-05-16 in the DeepSeek V2 family with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 32k 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 V2
- Released
- 2024-05-16
- Context
- 32k
- Parameters
- 16B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- DeepSeek LicenseCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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Pricing
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
DeepSeek V2 Lite is DeepSeek's DeepSeek V2 model. It offers a 32K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.
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.