Last reviewed: October 11, 2026 Quick answer: DeepSeek Coder is the original family of DeepSeek code language models, released in multiple sizes and built for code generation, completion, infilling, and project-level coding tasks. DeepSeek-Coder-V2 is the later Mixture-of-Experts coding model…
Last reviewed: October 11, 2026 Quick answer: DeepSeek OCR is a research-driven document understanding model built around Contexts Optical Compression. DeepSeek OCR 2 is the newer version, built around Visual Causal Flow and DeepEncoder V2. Both can be used for…
DeepSeek is partly open, but the precise answer depends on what you mean by “DeepSeek.” DeepSeek publishes many model repositories and downloadable model weights, and several official model cards or repositories list permissive licenses such as MIT. But the hosted…
DeepSeek V3 Family refers to the sequence of DeepSeek V3-series models released from late 2024 through 2025, including DeepSeek-V3, V3-0324, V3.1, V3.1-Terminus, V3.2-Exp, V3.2, and V3.2-Speciale. The family was important because it pushed open Mixture-of-Experts models, API-compatible deployment, reasoning improvements,…
DeepSeek R1 is DeepSeek’s first-generation reasoning model, released in January 2025. It became important because it showed strong reasoning performance, was released with open weights and a technical report, and helped push wider interest in reinforcement-learning-based reasoning models. However, DeepSeek…
DeepSeek V4 Pro is DeepSeek’s Pro model line for higher-end text, reasoning, coding, and agent workflows. In the official DeepSeek API, the current model is called deepseek-v4-pro, and the current model version shown in the official model table is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813.…
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek’s current Flash model release, available through the official API as deepseek-flash. It is designed as a faster, lower-cost, multimodal model for text, image understanding, long-context work, and agent workflows. The name matters. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is the…
