DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of DeepSeek's DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more. Click on any model to compare API providers for that model. For more details including relating to our methodology, see our FAQs.
DeepSeek has launched a newer model, DeepSeek-V2.5. We suggest considering this model instead of DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite. See the following pages for a comparison of DeepSeek-V2.5 to other models and DeepSeek-V2.5 API provider benchmarks.
Comparison Summary
Intelligence:
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite is of lower quality compared to average, with a MMLU score of 0.429 and a Intelligence Index across evaluations of 20.
Price:Speed:Latency:Context Window:DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite has a smaller context windows than average, with a context window of 130k tokens.
Highlights
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index; Higher is better
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
Speed
Output Tokens per Second; Higher is better
Price
USD per 1M Tokens; Lower is better
Parallel Queries:
Prompt Length:
DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite Instruct Model Details
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