DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek · · 122 days after DeepSeek-V2
Verified
2 of 2 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived1 not disclosed by the lab
Why this status
Cited to official documentation and the official model card, and every value it asserts was found there. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. No image, audio or video capability appears anywhere in the primary sources, which labs advertise prominently when present. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: coding: “5: A New Open-Source Model Combining General and Coding Capabilities | DeepSeek API Docs Skip to main content DeepSeek API Docs English English 中文（中国） DeepSeek Platform Q” | function_calling: “5 Release 2024/09/05 Context Caching is Available 2024/08/02 New API Features 2024/07/25 API Reference API Guides Multi-round Conversation Chat Prefix Completion (Beta) F” | structured_output: “5 Release 2024/09/05 Context Caching is Available 2024/08/02 New API Features 2024/07/25 API Reference API Guides Multi-round Conversation Chat Prefix Completion (Beta) F”.
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An all-in-one merge of DeepSeek-V2-Chat and DeepSeek-Coder-V2 that combines general conversational and code capabilities.
Details
| Released | September 5, 2024stated in huggingface.coDeepSeek-V2.5 was released on September 5, 2024.
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| Company | DeepSeek |
| Family | DeepSeek |
| Lineage | after DeepSeek-V2 · before DeepSeek-V3 |
| Era | Multimodal & open weights |
| Type | Language model · LLM |
| Modalities | Text → Text |
| Capabilities | Coding, Function calling, Structured output |
| Weights | Open weights |
| Licence | DeepSeek License Agreement 1.0 |
| Context window | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | 236Bstated in huggingface.coDeepSeek-V2.5 has 236,000,000,000 parameters.
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Current information, elsewhere
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- Current price and providers OpenRouter ↗
- Current benchmark scores Artificial Analysis ↗
- Weights and model card Hugging Face ↗
Sources
Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Cited to official documentation and the official model card, and every value it asserts was found there. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. No image, audio or video capability appears anywhere in the primary sources, which labs advertise prominently when present. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: coding: “5: A New Open-Source Model Combining General and Coding Capabilities | DeepSeek API Docs Skip to main content DeepSeek API Docs English English 中文（中国） DeepSeek Platform Q” | function_calling: “5 Release 2024/09/05 Context Caching is Available 2024/08/02 New API Features 2024/07/25 API Reference API Guides Multi-round Conversation Chat Prefix Completion (Beta) F” | structured_output: “5 Release 2024/09/05 Context Caching is Available 2024/08/02 New API Features 2024/07/25 API Reference API Guides Multi-round Conversation Chat Prefix Completion (Beta) F”.
- api-docs.deepseek.com Official documentation archived
- huggingface.co Model card archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
DeepSeek family
- DeepSeek-V2 May 6, 2024
- DeepSeek-V2.5 September 5, 2024
- DeepSeek-V3 December 26, 2024
- DeepSeek-R1 January 20, 2025
- DeepSeek-V3.1 August 21, 2025
- DeepSeek V4 Flash April 24, 2026
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash September 10, 2026
What changed from DeepSeek-V2
Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.
- Capabilities first evidencedfunction_calling, structured_output
Not comparable: Context window (not disclosed for both releases)
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