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DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct is an open-weights language model from DeepSeek, released October 2023. Its published size is 6.74B parameters and a 16k-token context window. Licence: deepseek.

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Maker repo deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct @e5d64ad: licence tag other (deepseek). 6,740,512,768 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2023-10: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2023-10-29). DeepSeek-Coder v1 instruct model. Ollama tags deepseek-coder:6.7b-instruct-q4_K_M, deepseek-coder:6.7b-instruct-q8_0 (sizes as listed on the tags page, observed 2026-09-29).

47.5±0.6#389 of 719 LLMsfrom 11 benchmark results across 5 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct, out of 828 with a score, then more from DeepSeek.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
464Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct Alibaba48±2local~35GB2024-06
465Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Alibaba48±1local~3.3GB2024-11
466DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct DeepSeek48±1local~5.8GB2023-10
467MiniCPM3-4B OpenBMB48±2local~4GB2024-09
468Bielik 4.5B v3.0 Instruct SpeakLeash48±2local~4.3GB2025-04
more from DeepSeek
21DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek78±1api $0.26/M +local~537GB2026-09
31DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) DeepSeek76±1api $1.63/M +local~1010GB2026-08
35DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale DeepSeek76±3comparison only

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$ what it's good at

coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #282 of 458 · 77% of its score · 6 tests

Beats Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct, Solar Open 100B (102B-A12B), GLM-4.7-Flash here, though they rank higher overall. Trails DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat, WizardLM 70B V1.0, Yi 1.5 9B Chat here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HumanEval +174.4% ✎▁·▁▁▃▄▆▅█▃▁▁ beats 69/99easy · avg 79%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 42%sharp · at its level · several runs
HumanEval+71.3% ✎▁·▁▁▁▃▄▄▄█▃▁ beats 76/99easy · avg 74%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%sharp · at its level
LiveCodeBench official (Jan 1–Nov 1, 2024)17.9% ✎▁▁·▁▃▄▆█▅▂·▂ beats 4/31hard · avg 26%▇▇▇ 6.6%sharp
MBPP+65.6% ✎▁···▁▁▂▅▇█▆▂ beats 53/75easy · avg 68%▇▇ 4.1%at its level
CRUXEval-I37.4% ✎▁··▁▅▂█▇▁··▁ beats 9/22medium · avg 54%▇ 1.5%at its level
CRUXEval-O41.2% ✎▁·▂▃▁█▁▂···▁ beats 12/22medium · avg 53%▇ 1.4%blunt · at its level
other tests4 not in a task · 22% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
EvoEval (overall)46.9% ✎▂▂▃▄▄█▁▄▅▃▁▃ beats 32/42medium · avg 55%▇▇▇▇ 11%at its level
BigCodeBench (Instruct)35.3% ✎▃▂·▆▆██▆▅▃▃▃ beats 16/33medium · avg 41%▇▇ 4.4%at its level
BigCodeBench (Complete)43.2% ✎▂▁▁▄▂▅▇█▆▂▂▂ beats 35/58medium · avg 50%▇▇ 4.3%at its level
EvalPerf correctness (118 tasks, 20240328)73.6% ✎▂·▂▂▂▆▅▆▆▆▃█ beats 9/29easy · avg 76%▇ 2.5%at its level

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct · needs ~4.1 GB · from huggingface.co/TheBloke
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf TheBloke/deepseek-coder-6.7B-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf TheBloke/deepseek-coder-6.7B-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct · needs ~4.1 GB · from huggingface.co/TheBloke

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/deepseek-coder-6.7B-instruct-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run DeepSeek-Coder 6.7B Instruct · needs ~4.1 GB · from ollama.com
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run deepseek-coder:6.7b-instruct-q4_K_M

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/deepseek-ai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · EvalPlus / EvalPerf published… 55%, Top Leaderboard Ranking = Top… 26%, BigCodeBench paper (Zhuo et a… 9% and 2 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
EvalPlus / EvalPerf published evaluation runs4▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 55%Apache-2.0
Top Leaderboard Ranking = Top Coding Proficiency, Always? EvoEval: Evolving Coding Benchmarks via LLM — authors' own runs2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 26%CC BY 4.0
BigCodeBench paper (Zhuo et al., ICLR 2025), arXiv 2406.15877v42▇▇▇ 9%CC BY 4.0
LiveCodeBench official website results (2024-12-26)1▇▇ 7%CC-BY-SA-4.0
CRUXEval published evaluation results (authors' generations and scores)2▇ 3%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 0%
weighted average= 47.5

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