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DeepSeek Coder V2

DeepSeek's 236B MoE coder: 338 languages, SOTA open coding in 2024.

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DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct (June 2024) is DeepSeek's 236B-parameter mixture-of-experts code model (6 experts active per token): 128K context, 338 programming languages, and state-of-the-art open coding performance on release — the model that made DeepSeek a name before V3/R1. Weights are not gated, under the DeepSeek License — custom, non-OSI (commercial use allowed within terms): "open weights", never "open source". 7.4k HF downloads. Superseded for coding by DeepSeek-V3.2 and the R1 reasoning line, but a solid self-hosted code specialist.

Specs

Context window

128K tokens

Pricing

Self-host: free within the DeepSeek License terms. Hosted inference via several providers — per-token pricing varies; check live provider pages.

Free quota

No official free API; self-hosting is free.

API access

Self-host (vLLM recommended; 472GB weights) or hosted inference APIs.

Weights

Open weights

Released

June 14, 2024

Benchmarks

Provider-reported (DeepSeek, Jun 2024): SOTA open coding on HumanEval, MBPP, SWE-bench-adjacent evals; strong math — provider-reported. Historical.

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

codingcode reviewmultilingual codeagents

Trust score — 6/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 6/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF downloads 7,410 (peer-normalized); released 851 days ago. Manual review: 236B MoE coder (128K, 338 langs), SOTA open coding on release; superseded by V3/R1 coding generations. License: DeepSeek License — custom, non-OSI; describe as 'open weights', never 'open source'.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
6.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
4.0/10
Openness · license + docs
6.5/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
8.0/10
  • · HF downloads 7,410 (peer-normalized)
  • · released 851 days ago
  • · manual review: 236B MoE coder (128K, 338 langs), SOTA open coding on release; superseded by V3/R1 coding generations

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