> DeepSeek-V2 is an open-weights AI model from DeepSeek, released 6 May 2024.

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# DeepSeek-V2

DeepSeek

Released 6 May 2024

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-gpt-4o/) [Announcement](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

Replaced by [DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)](https://themodelindex.org/models/deepseek-v2-5-sep-2024/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#154

of 239 · 124.8

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024); it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Facts and sources

Released

6 May 2024

Announcement

[github.com ↗](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2)

Release entry

DeepSeek-V2

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

not linked

## DeepSeek releases · around this one

DeepSeek Coder

Open

2 NOV 2023

DeepSeek LLM 67B

Open

29 NOV 2023

index 82

DeepSeek-V2

Open

6 MAY 2024

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

Open

17 JUN 2024

DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview

Closed

20 NOV 2024

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/deepseek-v2/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01