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deepseek-ai Apache 2.0 out 9 months ago

3.39B parameters (6 of 64 experts per token), images and text in, text out, 8K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #136 in LLMs · score 94.1 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 531.3k · #162 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 1 new quantized build on the Hub (11 in all).2026-10-24

Can I run it?2.0GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?531.3kdownloads, 30 days#162 of 619 we track · top 26%+9 likes, downloads −13% this week1,144 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 29 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 1,843 HN pts
github.com 2025-01-20 1,843 HN pts · 663 comments 2.1k words about the DeepSeek family family
Latest · 45 days ago
twitter.com 2026-09-10 1,016 HN pts · 574 comments about the DeepSeek family family

25 best of 29 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · 2026-07-31 · 594 HN pts
  2. ArticleRun GLM-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, Dots.mocr with an OpenAI Compatible APIvlm.run · 2026-08-19 · 6 HN pts
  3. PaperDeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RLarxiv.org · 2025-01-25 · 1,351 HN pts
  4. CodeDeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]github.com · 2025-01-27 · 912 HN pts
  5. CodeDeepSeek OCRgithub.com · 2025-10-20 · 1,003 HN pts
  6. ArticleOpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitorft.com · 2025-01-29 · 747 HN pts
  7. CodeDeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Daysgithub.com · 2025-02-21 · 757 HN pts
  8. CodeThe path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference enginegithub.com · 2025-04-14 · 550 HN pts
  9. ArticleGetting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Codesimonwillison.net · 2025-10-20
  10. CodeDeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeongithub.com · 2025-03-06
  11. ArticleRolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of codechristopherkrapu.com · 2026-01-14
  12. Paper[PDF] DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow - arXivarxiv.org · undated
  13. Paper[Re:DeepSeek-OCR] Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencodingarxiv.org · 2025-12-10
  14. CodeDeepSeek-OCR 2github.com · 2026-01-27
  15. PaperDeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressionarxiv.org · 2025-10-29
  16. CodeShow HN: Universal DeepSeek OCR 2 – CPU, MPS, CUDA Supportgithub.com · 2026-01-28
  17. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR:10x Compression and 97% Accuracy Beats Tesseract and PaddleOCRdeepocr.cc · 2025-10-29
  18. ArticleDeepSeek OCR-2: Reading Order Is the Feature, Not a Bonus — Redeepredeep.blog · 2026-06-06
  19. Codedeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2github.com · 2026-01-27
  20. ArticleDeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI's ability to remembertechnologyreview.com · 2025-10-29
  21. ArticleDeepSeek OCR-2 in Production - What the Benchmarks Don't Tell You · Instavarinstavar.com · undated
  22. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow — Paper Graphpaper-graph-ui.vercel.app · undated
  23. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR-2 vs GLM-OCR vs PaddleOCR - Regolo.AIregolo.ai · undated

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 11 quantized builds and 39 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware11quantized builds
  • Built on4636 fine-tunes · 9 adapters · 1 merges
  • In apps39Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: merterbak/DeepSeek-OCR-Demo ♥ 513 · prithivMLmods/DeepSeek-OCR-2-Unlimited-OCR ♥ 25 · baohuynhbk14/DeepSeek-OCR-2-DEMO ♥ 10 · mcikalmerdeka/vlms-ocr-playground ♥ 3

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 2.0 GB at INT4, 4.1 GB at FP8, 8.1 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.0 GBFP8: about 4.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.1 GBBF16: about 8.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF168.1 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.0 GBFP8: about 4.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.1 GBBF16: about 8.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF168.1 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2026-01-27), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

57 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

57 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

11 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)36 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)9 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)11 quantized36 fine-tunes1 merge9 adapters
11 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)36 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 merge (Hugging Face model tree)9 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)11 quantized36 fine-tunes1 merge9 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

24 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagimage-text-to-text
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesDeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM
Model typedeepseek_vl_v2
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 3,389,119,360
Size bandM
MoEyes
Experts64
Experts per token6
Context length8,192 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesmultilingual
PapersarXiv:2601.20552, arXiv:2510.18234
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · DeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · DeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for DeepSeek-OCR-2: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)8.1 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)4.1 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)2.0 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek 57 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 36quantized: 11adapter: 9merge: 1

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
unsloth/DeepSeek-OCR-2 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 unsloth 55 556.9k
Dogacel/Universal-DeepSeek-OCR-2 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Dogacel 12 36.6k
sabafallah/DeepSeek-OCR-2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — sabafallah 13 35.2k
richarddavison/DeepSeek-OCR-2-FP8 quantized -FP8 3.39B M mit richarddavison 5 8.1k
JamePeng2023/DeepSeek-OCR-2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 JamePeng2023 0 5.5k
SandLogicTechnologies/DeepSeek-OCR-2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit SandLogicTechnologies 2 4.6k
forkjoin-ai/deepseek-ocr-2 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 forkjoin-ai 0 4k
bartsolutions/DeepSeek-OCR-2-GPTQ-INT8 quantized GPTQ 3.39B M mit bartsolutions 1 3.7k
42ailab/DeepSeek-OCR-2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 42ailab 1 1.6k
harishforaiandml/DeepSeek-OCR-2-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 harishforaiandml 1 723
strangervisionhf/deepseek-ocr-2-transformers-v4.57.1 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 strangervisionhf 2 446
AyoubChLin/deepseek_ocr2_arabic_jsonify adapter — 3.39B M apache-2.0 AyoubChLin 0 422
ajayrathi100699/unsloth_finetune_deepseek finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 ajayrathi100699 0 307
YUNGHUI2024/deepseek-ocr2-chart-v1 adapter — — — apache-2.0 YUNGHUI2024 0 259
Tcyber/deepseek_ocr_ethiopian_legal_FULL finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Tcyber 0 183
Nightwingkills/deepseek_12k_finetune_full finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Nightwingkills 0 177
Nightwingkills/deepseek-ocr2-finetuned_V3 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Nightwingkills 0 173
ajayrathi100699/unsloth_finetune_deeping finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 ajayrathi100699 0 170
Nightwingkills/unsloth_finetune_sahi_hai finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Nightwingkills 0 161
hmqid03/deepseek-ocr2-vi finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 hmqid03 0 149
Nightwingkills/deepseek-ocr2-finetuned finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Nightwingkills 0 130
nalatisa/finetuned-ocrd2-merged finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 nalatisa 0 122
AutomatosX/AX-DeepSeek-OCR-2-MLX-AXQ-MXFP8 quantized MLX 3.39B M apache-2.0 AutomatosX 0 122
melsiddieg/deepseekocr2-ar finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 0 121
raporto/unsloth_finetune finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 raporto 0 116
rifathridoy/bangla_deepseek_ocr_2 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 rifathridoy 0 109
Ovalko/Deepseek-OCR-QnA finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 Ovalko 0 107
Felipe2231/canario-amarelo-prod-final merge — — — artistic-2.0 Felipe2231 2 0
jianchen266/DSO finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 jianchen266 0 88
AutomatosX/AX-DeepSeek-OCR-2-CUDA-AXQ-NVFP4-W4A16 quantized NVFP4 3.39B M apache-2.0 AutomatosX 0 80
tnkchaseme/DeepSeek-OCR-2-CROHME-LORA adapter — — — — tnkchaseme 0 76
pacogarcia/unsloth_deepseek_finetune finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 pacogarcia 0 75
loay404/unsloth_finetune finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 loay404 0 70
TensorVizion/RagSeek-v1 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 TensorVizion 0 70
Inoriqq/deepseek-ocr2-thai-lora-clean adapter — — — — Inoriqq 0 69
kamillkate/unsloth_finetune_TW2 finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 kamillkate 0 68
AutomatosX/AX-DeepSeek-OCR-2-MLX-AXQ-6bit quantized MLX 3.39B M apache-2.0 AutomatosX 0 65
mason1998/deepseek-finetune-ocr-kurdish finetune — 3.39B M apache-2.0 mason1998 0 63
AutomatosX/AX-DeepSeek-OCR-2-CUDA-AXQ-NVFP4-W4A4 quantized NVFP4 3.39B M apache-2.0 AutomatosX 0 63
nickoo004/deepseek-ocr2-karakalpak-lora adapter — — — apache-2.0 nickoo004 0 61

Repository changelog

11 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 11 commits

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2026-02-03 Update README.md aaa02f3
2026-01-30 Update README.md c11b6e9
2026-01-27 Update README.md fdee390
2026-01-27 Update README.md f5a5d18
2026-01-27 Update README.md 4d8e200
2026-01-27 Delete .ipynb_checkpoints 18bdb3c
2026-01-27 initial commit db8cee3
2026-01-27 Update README.md b5ac633
2026-01-27 Delete .ipynb_checkpoints 16dca68
2026-01-27 initial commit e6322a2
2026-01-27 initial commit e5f86a3

Articles and coverage

29 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Analysis9

artificialanalysis.ai2026-07-31authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 594 pts · 312 comments1,118 words
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Max) is a 284B parameter open-weight model released on July 31, 2026, under the MIT license. It scores 34 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while costing $0.14 per 1M input tokens and utilizing only 13B active parameters during inference. The model supports a 1M token context window and outputs text at 149.8 tokens per second.written, reviewed, cited
  • This model is deprecated and benchmarking continues only for the default 10k input token workload.
  • The model is notably fast but generates output that is very verbose compared to the median.
  • For a blended rate using a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio, the cost is $0.07 per 1M tokens.
vlm.run2026-08-19HN 6 pts · 1 comments1,619 words
VLM Run Gateway provides access to 26 open-weight visual models for OCR, detection, and chat through a unified OpenAI-compatible API. The platform supports workloads ranging from 500-page PDFs to 2-hour videos with a p50 latency under 100ms and a 99.9% uptime SLA. It offers Type II, HIPAA, and BAA SOC 2 compliance for regulated data while allowing free model swapping without code changes.written, reviewed, cited
  • The platform bills 2.5K image tokens per page for document processing workloads.
  • Frontier VLMs like Gemini and Claude cost between $938 and $7.3K for similar tasks.
arxiv.org2025-01-25authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 1,351 pts · 1,056 comments371 words
github.com2025-01-20authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 1,843 pts · 663 comments2,107 words
github.com2025-01-27authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 912 pts · 674 comments
github.com2025-10-20authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 1,003 pts · 244 comments508 words
ft.com2025-01-29HN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 747 pts · 1,541 comments
github.com2025-02-21authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 757 pts · 236 comments497 words
github.com2025-04-14authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 550 pts · 63 comments412 words

Community1

twitter.com2026-09-10HN front pageabout the DeepSeek familyHN 1,016 pts · 574 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (29) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
[PDF] DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow - arXivarxiv.org—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek OCR-2 in Production - What the Benchmarks Don't Tell You · Instavarinstavar.com—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow — Paper Graphpaper-graph-ui.vercel.app—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR-2 vs GLM-OCR vs PaddleOCR - Regolo.AIregolo.ai—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek v4.1 Flashtwitter.com2026-09-102026-10-07hn
Run GLM-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, Dots.mocr with an OpenAI Compatible APIvlm.run2026-08-192026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai2026-07-312026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR-2: Reading Order Is the Feature, Not a Bonus — Redeepredeep.blog2026-06-062026-10-07exa
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek-OCR 2 with Causal Visual Flow Encoder for Layout Aware Document Understanding - MarkTechPostmarktechpost.com2026-01-302026-10-07exa
Show HN: Universal DeepSeek OCR 2 – CPU, MPS, CUDA Supportgithub.com2026-01-282026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow [Quick Review]liner.com2026-01-282026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR 2github.com2026-01-272026-10-07hn
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2github.com2026-01-272026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR 2: The Definitive Guide (Setup, Benchmarks & Python Inference) | AiCybr Blogaicybr.com2026-01-272026-10-07exa
Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of codechristopherkrapu.com2026-01-142026-10-07hn
[Re:DeepSeek-OCR] Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencodingarxiv.org2025-12-102026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressionarxiv.org2025-10-292026-10-07hn
Speculations about DeepSeek-OCR and Quantizationdgsq.net2025-10-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI's ability to remembertechnologyreview.com2025-10-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR:10x Compression and 97% Accuracy Beats Tesseract and PaddleOCRdeepocr.cc2025-10-292026-10-07hn
Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Codesimonwillison.net2025-10-202026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCRgithub.com2025-10-202026-10-07hn
The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference enginegithub.com2025-04-142026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeongithub.com2025-03-062026-10-07hn
DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Daysgithub.com2025-02-212026-10-07hn
OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitorft.com2025-01-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]github.com2025-01-272026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RLarxiv.org2025-01-252026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-R1github.com2025-01-202026-10-07hn

Papers

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