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DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct (0724) is an open-weights language model from DeepSeek, released September 2024. Its published size is 235.74B parameters (21B active per token). Licence: other (deepseek-license).

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724 @80378f7: licence tag other (deepseek-license). 235,741,434,880 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata; active 21B per token (DeepSeek-Coder-V2 card: 236B total, 'actived parameters of only ... 21B'). Released 2024-09: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2024-09-05). DeepSeek API updates page (api-docs.deepseek.com/updates): 'Date: 2024-07-24 deepseek-coder: The deepseek-coder model has been upgraded to DeepSeek-Coder-V2-0724' (superseded by DeepSeek-V2.5 on 2024-09-05). Distinct from the catalogued deepseek-coder-v2 (0614).

53.0±1.0#300 of 719 LLMsfrom 6 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct (0724), out of 828 with a score, then more from DeepSeek.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
358DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct (0614) DeepSeek53±1local~92GB2024-06
359s1.1 32B Simple Scaling53±1local~22GB2025-02
360DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct (0724) DeepSeek53±1local~151GB2024-09
361Olmo 3 7B Think Ai253±1local~5.8GB2025-11
362GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI53±1api $0.17/M2025-04
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

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #233 of 300 * · 2.0% of its score · 1 test

Beats o3-mini, Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Granite 4.0 1B, SmolLM3 3B, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL v354.8% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 57/114medium · avg 52%▇ 2.0%blunt · at its level
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #191 of 458 * · 38% of its score · 2 tests

Beats Gemini 2.5 Flash, Qwen3.5 4B, Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails QwQ-32B-Preview here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
CRUXEval (ZeroEval, 800 problems)69.5% ✎▁▂▆▃▆█▆▃▂·▁▁ beats 27/47medium · avg 61%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%sharp · at its level
Aider code editing (133 Exercism Python exercises, two attempts)72.9% ✎▁·▁▂▄▁▆▄█▆▂▂ beats 55/62medium · avg 54%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%at its level
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #280 of 398 * · 7.6% of its score · 1 test

Beats Molmo 2 8B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, Granite 8B Code Base (4K), Mixtral 8x7B v0.1 (base) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GSM8K (ZeroEval, zero-shot)91.5% ✎▁▄·▁▄█▅▅▅███ beats 24/43very easy · avg 89%▇▇▇ 7.6%sharp · maxed out
other tests2 not in a task · 52% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MMLU-Redux (ZeroEval, 2,778 questions)80.2% ✎▁·▁▁▄▄▄▅█▄▂▁ beats 28/53easy · avg 77%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 34%typical
ZebraLogic (ZeroEval, 1,000 puzzles)20.5% ✎▁▁▃▆██▁▁·▁▁▁ beats 31/57hard · avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%sharp

$ 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-V2 Instruct (0724) · needs ~142.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-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-V2 Instruct (0724) · needs ~142.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~471.49 GB · from huggingface.co/deepseek-ai
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto', trust_remote_code=True)('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

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

$ how the score was worked out · WildEval ZeroEval published r… 81%, Aider code editing benchmark… 16%, Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 2%

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
WildEval ZeroEval published results4▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 81%Apache-2.0
Aider code editing benchmark runs (old edit leaderboard)1▇▇▇▇▇ 16%Apache-2.0
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard result archive1▇ 2%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 0%
weighted average= 53.0

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