LLM Reference

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat

Released
2024-05-16
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
Open Source

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 32k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2024-05-16
Context
32k
Parameters
16B
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Fine-tuning
chat
Created by

Advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI

About

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat is DeepSeek's DeepSeek V2 model. It offers a 32K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.

DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat is an open-source model in the DeepSeek V2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 32k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat yet.

Top use-case fit

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

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Fireworks AI$0.200$0.200
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Capabilities

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Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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Migration checks

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