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DeepSeek Coder
Open-source coding LLM matching GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost.
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Best for
Builders running high-volume agentic code workloads who want frontier quality at commodity pricing.
At a glance
- Pricing
- paid
- Setup time
- 10 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/22/2026
What we love
- ✓Best quality-per-dollar in the market
- ✓Open weights for self-hosting
- ✓Strong code reasoning
Where it falls short
- −China-hosted API has data-residency implications
- −English documentation thinner than US labs
- −Rate limits during peak
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
API
From $0.14
per 1M input tokens
- ✓V3
- ✓Coder-V2
- ✓FIM
- ✓128K ctx
Self-host
$0
open weights
- ✓Run on your own GPUs
Why we picked it
DeepSeek V3 codes at GPT-4 level for ~5% of the API cost. Use it for high-volume code agents where Claude or GPT would bankrupt you.
Overview
Open-source coding LLM matching GPT-4 at a fraction of the cost. Builders running high-volume agentic code workloads who want frontier quality at commodity pricing.
Key features
- ●DeepSeek-V3 + DeepSeek-Coder-V2
- ●MIT-style open weights
- ●128K context
- ●OpenAI-compatible API
- ●HumanEval at GPT-4 tier
- ●FIM completion
- ●Cheap per-token pricing
Best use cases
Mass code review at scale
Run AI review on every PR without breaking the budget.
Self-hosted code agent
Deploy V3 on your own GPUs.
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