DeepSeek Coder
Open-source code LLM
Category
LLM Providers for Code
Platforms
api, cli
Pricing
$0 — $0.14/M input tokens
Open Source
Yes
IDE Support
API, Ollama, Many integrations
What is DeepSeek Coder?
DeepSeek Coder is an open-source family of code LLMs that rivals proprietary models. DeepSeek-V2 scores competitively on SWE-bench and HumanEval while being much cheaper to run, either self-hosted or via API.
Who is it for? Developers building AI-powered applications who need reliable model APIs.
Key Features
Available on
Our Verdict
The best open-source code LLM. Remarkable quality at a fraction of the cost of proprietary models.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Open source & self-hostable
- + Very cheap API pricing
- + Competitive with GPT-4 on code
- + Active development
Cons
- - Smaller context window than Claude
- - Less reliable for complex reasoning
- - Chinese company (data concerns for some)
- - Quality gap vs top proprietary models
Pricing
Open Source
$0
- Full model weights
- Self-host anywhere
API
$0.14/M input tokens
- Hosted API
- No setup required
Supported Languages & IDEs
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About DeepSeek
Company DeepSeek
Founded 2023
HQ Hangzhou, China
Repository
github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder — 8.0k stars
Status Active
Data updated 2025-03-05