How much does DeepSeek-Coder-V2 cost?

DeepSeek has not published per-token API pricing for DeepSeek-Coder-V2 at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is DeepSeek-Coder-V2's context window?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is DeepSeek-Coder-V2 open source?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 ships with open weights under the MIT license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was DeepSeek-Coder-V2 released?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 was released on Jun 17, 2024 by DeepSeek.

How much does DeepSeek-Coder-V2 cost?

DeepSeek has not published per-token API pricing for DeepSeek-Coder-V2 at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.

What is DeepSeek-Coder-V2's context window?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is DeepSeek-Coder-V2 open source?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 ships with open weights under the MIT license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was DeepSeek-Coder-V2 released?

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 was released on Jun 17, 2024 by DeepSeek.

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DeepSeek-Coder-V2

DeepSeek's code-specialized model, strong on a broad set of programming languages and FIM tasks.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Jun 2024
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: Pricing not published
License: MIT

About DeepSeek-Coder-V2

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 was an early entrant in the strong-open-weight-coder category and remains popular for self-hosted code completion and review pipelines. The 236B MoE variant is the headline release; smaller distilled versions ship for laptop deployment.

Benchmarks

Published scores from DeepSeek's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval

90.2

Python coding pass@1

MMLU

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

HumanEval90.2

Capabilities

Strengths

Code-specialist
MIT license
FIM support

Tracked weaknesses

Older generation by 2026 standards

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by DeepSeek.

Per-token pricing not yet published for DeepSeek-Coder-V2. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call DeepSeek-Coder-V2 from your code

Drop-in snippet for the DeepSeek SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "deepseek-coder-v2",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

How much does DeepSeek-Coder-V2 cost?
DeepSeek has not published per-token API pricing for DeepSeek-Coder-V2 at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
What is DeepSeek-Coder-V2's context window?
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is DeepSeek-Coder-V2 open source?
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 ships with open weights under the MIT license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
When was DeepSeek-Coder-V2 released?
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 was released on Jun 17, 2024 by DeepSeek.

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