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deepseek-ai MIT out 12 months ago

3.34B parameters (6 of 64 experts per token), images and text in, text out, 8K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #55 in LLMs · score 106.5 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 2.1M · #61 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?2.0GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethodCommunity: DeepSeek-OCR: Running on a Single A100 40GB GPU →
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?2.1Mdownloads, 30 days#61 of 619 we track · top 10%+12 likes, downloads +0% this week3,457 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 41 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 41 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. DiscussionKarpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?twitter.com · 2025-10-21
  11. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR Visualizedmedium.com · 2026-05-28
  12. Paper[Re:DeepSeek-OCR] Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencodingarxiv.org · 2025-12-10
  13. CodeDeepSeek-OCR: Running on a Single A100 40GB GPUgithub.com · undated
  14. CodeDeepSeek-OCR 2github.com · 2026-01-27
  15. PaperDeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressionarxiv.org · 2025-10-29
  16. CodeDeepSeek-ocr.rs: Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCRgithub.com · 2025-10-29
  17. CodeShow HN: Universal DeepSeek OCR 2 – CPU, MPS, CUDA Supportgithub.com · 2026-01-28
  18. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR:10x Compression and 97% Accuracy Beats Tesseract and PaddleOCRdeepocr.cc · 2025-10-29
  19. CodeDeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression [pdf]github.com · 2025-10-22
  20. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR Compression Meets Energy Searchtuned.org.uk · 2025-10-24
  21. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR compression in readable Rustcrates.io · 2025-10-23
  22. ArticleDeepSeek OCR Guide: Setup, API, Benchmarks & OCR 2chat-deep.ai · 2026-05-06
  23. ArticleDeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressiondeepseek-ocr.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 100 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware11quantized builds
  • Built on161131 fine-tunes · 27 adapters · 3 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: khang119966/DeepSeek-OCR-DEMO ♥ 456 · embedl/hfviewer ♥ 181 · prithivMLmods/Super-OCRs-Demo ♥ 44 · akhaliq/DeepSeek-OCR ♥ 16

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, 4.0 GB at FP8, 8.0 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 4.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.0 GBBF16: about 8.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF168.0 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 4.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.0 GBBF16: about 8.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF168.0 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 (2025-10-17), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

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

172 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)131 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)3 merges (Hugging Face model tree)27 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)11 quantized131 fine-tunes3 merges27 adapters
11 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)131 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)3 merges (Hugging Face model tree)27 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)11 quantized131 fine-tunes3 merges27 adapters

All variants →

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
ArchitecturesDeepseekOCRForCausalLM
Model typedeepseek_vl_v2
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 3,336,106,240
Size bandM
MoEyes
Experts64
Experts per token6
Context length8,192 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesmultilingual
PapersarXiv:2510.18234
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · DeepseekOCRForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · DeepseekOCRForCausalLM · 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: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)8.0 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)4.0 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 172 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 11finetune: 131adapter: 27merge: 3

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
NexaAI/DeepSeek-OCR-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — NexaAI 52 211.6k
unsloth/DeepSeek-OCR finetune — 3.34B M mit unsloth 41 82.1k
prithivMLmods/DeepSeek-OCR-Latest-BF16.I64 finetune -BF16 3.34B M mit prithivMLmods 9 59.4k
SamMikaelson/deepseek-ocr-qvlm-4bit finetune -4bit 1.90B S apache-2.0 SamMikaelson 0 48k
sabafallah/DeepSeek-OCR-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — sabafallah 13 26.6k
NexaAI/DeepSeek-OCR-GGUF-CUDA quantized GGUF — — — NexaAI 8 21.1k
Jalea96/DeepSeek-OCR-bnb-4bit-NF4 quantized -bnb 3.43B M mit Jalea96 17 20.3k
Dogacel/DeepSeek-OCR-Metal-MPS finetune — 3.34B M mit Dogacel 13 2.6k
sanchezalonsodavid17/DeepSeek-OCR-MBQ-Quantized-v1 quantized -Quant 3.43B M mit sanchezalonsodavid17 6 2.4k
forkjoin-ai/deepseek-ocr-gguf quantized gguf — — apache-2.0 forkjoin-ai 0 998
larshiakzemil/unsloth_finetune quantized GGUF 8.77B M apache-2.0 larshiakzemil 0 981
neuralabs/deepseek_ocr_de finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 neuralabs 5 403
sthaps/DeepSeek-ocr-Thai adapter — — — apache-2.0 sthaps 2 488
prithivMLmods/DeepSeek-OCR-Latest-BF16.I64-v2.0 finetune -BF16 3.34B M apache-2.0 prithivMLmods 1 512
see-k/unsloth_finetune quantized GGUF 3.34B M apache-2.0 see-k 0 424
arpitingle/sanskrit-ocr-lora adapter — — — — arpitingle 4 157
vinhnx90/deepseek-orc-3b-persian-detection-f16-vllm finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 vinhnx90 2 187
zakir0101/ftv6-ocr_b16 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 zakir0101 0 278
suyu-io/DeepSeek-OCR-Chinese-3B-Merged adapter — 3.34B M apache-2.0 suyu-io 1 224
melsiddieg/deepseek_ocr_arabic_v2 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 1 211
akmaldira/DeepSeek-OCR-RKLLM finetune — — — mit akmaldira 2 150
zerostratos/unsloth_finetune_deepseek-ocr finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 zerostratos 0 242
amd/DeepSeek-OCR-MXFP4 quantized MXFP4 2.20B M mit amd 0 241
KrorngAI/deepseek_ocr_Khmer_finetuned finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 KrorngAI 0 241
mingyi456/DeepSeek-OCR-DF11 quantized — 4.52B M mit mingyi456 1 183
not-lain/finetuned_deepseek_ocr adapter — 3.34B M mit not-lain 1 174
SamMikaelson/deepseek-ocr-mbq-w4bit finetune — 3.34B M mit SamMikaelson 0 222
JeffersonNunn/deepseek-ocr-metal finetune — — — mit JeffersonNunn 4 0
CrazyDentisit/DeepSeek-OCR-Chinese-image-unsloth_finetune finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 CrazyDentisit 0 197
Yagna1/deepseek-ocr-telugu-chitralekha finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 Yagna1 0 181
melsiddieg/deepseek_ocr_arabic_v6 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 1 127
Luca207/deepseek_ocr_finetuned2 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 Luca207 0 168
melsiddieg/deepseek_ocr_arabic finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 0 167
melsiddieg/deepseek_ocr_arabic_v3 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 0 166
GaborMadarasz/deepseek_ocr_unsloth_finetune finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 GaborMadarasz 0 165
arad1367/Deepseek_OCR_FL_1000Samples_3B finetune — — — apache-2.0 arad1367 0 158
Luke-Bergen/Mineral-Nano-1 finetune — 2.65B M apache-2.0 Luke-Bergen 3 0
matica0902/MLX-Video-OCR-DeepSeek-Apple-Silicon finetune MLX — — agpl-3.0 matica0902 3 0
vng08/DeepSeek-OCR-word-final finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 vng08 0 150
melsiddieg/deepseek_ocr_arabic_v5 finetune — 3.34B M apache-2.0 melsiddieg 0 149

Repository changelog

6 commits

Repository changelog 6 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-11-04 Update README.md 9f30c71
2025-10-25 Update README.md 2c968b4
2025-10-23 Update README.md ee668a4
2025-10-23 Update README.md ef93bf4
2025-10-22 Update README.md 968c903
2025-10-20 Initial public release 5951289

Articles and coverage

41 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 pageHN 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 (41) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
DeepSeek-OCR: Running on a Single A100 40GB GPUgithub.com—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressiondeepseek-ocr.ai—2026-10-07exa
https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/deepseek-ocr-optical-compressionintuitionlabs.ai—2026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR: How Optical Compression Redefines Long Contextintuitionlabs.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 Visualizedmedium.com2026-05-282026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR Guide: Setup, API, Benchmarks & OCR 2chat-deep.ai2026-05-062026-10-07exa
Show HN: Universal DeepSeek OCR 2 – CPU, MPS, CUDA Supportgithub.com2026-01-282026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR 2github.com2026-01-272026-10-07hn
PDF Craft – Open-Source PDF to eBook Converter Powered by DeepSeek-OCRpdf.oomol.com2025-12-222026-10-07hn
[Re:DeepSeek-OCR] Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencodingarxiv.org2025-12-102026-10-07hn
Show HN: DeepSeek-OCR with MPS and CPU Supporttwitter.com2025-11-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR Model Review | The Future of AI Text Recognition?advancetechie.info2025-10-312026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compressionarxiv.org2025-10-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-ocr.rs: Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCRgithub.com2025-10-292026-10-07hn
Speculations about DeepSeek-OCR and Quantizationdgsq.net2025-10-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR:10x Compression and 97% Accuracy Beats Tesseract and PaddleOCRdeepocr.cc2025-10-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR with Vllm – 10x cheaper on cloud GPUyoutube.com2025-10-272026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR solving long-context problem for RAG and AIzilliz.com2025-10-272026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR Compression Meets Energy Searchtuned.org.uk2025-10-242026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR compression in readable Rustcrates.io2025-10-232026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR – 97% Accuracy AI Text Extraction – Free Online Tooldeepseekocr.top2025-10-232026-10-07hn
alphaXiv reduced dataset extraction cost ($7500 to $1000) thanks to DeepSeek OCRtwitter.com2025-10-222026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression [pdf]github.com2025-10-222026-10-07hn
The Innovations in DeepSeek OCR (Reddit LocalLLaMA)old.reddit.com2025-10-222026-10-07hn
I Dug Into the DeepSeek‑OCR Paper And Here’s What I Learned | by Ashanvi | Mediummedium.com2025-10-222026-10-07exa
DeepSeek-OCR Performance Breakdown (2025): Speed, Accuracy, and Use Casesskywork.ai2025-10-222026-10-07exa
Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?twitter.com2025-10-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-OCR Online Tooldeepseekocr.pro2025-10-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR Demodeepseekocr.online2025-10-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek OCR Accuracy Benchmark Deep Dive 2025sparkco.ai2025-10-212026-10-07exa
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 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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