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Deepseek Coder
by DeepSeek
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RANKED #7 OF 22 CODE · OVERALL #129 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 326 VOICES ·
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Deepseek Coder from Deepseek.
HAPPY8.7
46 mentions
SAD6.3
34 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 219 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. DeepSeek hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Deepseek Coder is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.1
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructAlibabaTop open-weight coding model matching frontier code generation and reasoning.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE48 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS5.6Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructAlibabaLightweight, snappy code generation that runs smoothly on consumer hardware.🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST💸 COST EFFICIENT65 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Deepseek Coder. Biggest praise: help with code.
257 POSTS · 72 COMMENTS · GITHUB · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT · X · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (13 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Coding help disappoints some people (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
13 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Deepseek coder v2 16b crashes on 3080 and also on 4080 32gb ram.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-01-25 · 385 UPVOTESOllama Models Ranked by VRAM Requirements
Ollama Models Ranked by VRAM Requirements
- REDDIT · 2024-06-18 · 302 UPVOTESNew Open-Source Model Beats GPT-4-Turbo in Coding
New Open-Source Model Beats GPT-4-Turbo in Coding
- REDDIT · 2024-06-17 · 207 UPVOTESDeepSeek-Coder-V2: First Open Source Model Beats GPT4-Turbo in Coding and Math
DeepSeek-Coder-V2: First Open Source Model Beats GPT4-Turbo in Coding and Math
- REDDIT · 2026-01-28 · 95 UPVOTES[Opinion] Why I believe the $20/month Ollama Cloud is a better investment than ChatGPT or Claude
[Opinion] Why I believe the $20/month Ollama Cloud is a better investment than ChatGPT or Claude
- REDDIT · 2024-01-27 · 86 UPVOTESDeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence - DeepSeek-AI 2024 - SOTA open-source…
DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence - DeepSeek-AI 2024 - SOTA open-source coding model that surpasses GPT-3.5 and Codex while being unrestricted in research and commercial use!
- REDDIT · 2024-06-21 · 77 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- LEMMY · 2025-01-28 · 63 UPVOTESWhat is DeepSeek: China's ()open-source AI research lab which rivals OpenAI [Context]
What is DeepSeek: China's ()open-source AI research lab which rivals OpenAI [Context]
- REDDIT · 2024-08-23 · 53 UPVOTESCursor vs Continue vs ...?
Cursor vs Continue vs ...?
- REDDIT · 2026-05-01 · 47 UPVOTESWhy no one is talking aobut Deepseek coder being the goat?
Why no one is talking aobut Deepseek coder being the goat?
- REDDIT · 2026-05-08 · 41 UPVOTESCompared qwen3.6, qwen3-coder, and deepseek-coder on three coding benchmarks. All running locally on Ollama
Compared qwen3.6, qwen3-coder, and deepseek-coder on three coding benchmarks. All running locally on Ollama
- REDDIT · 2024-03-07 · 40 UPVOTESAnything better than ChatGPT for coding yet (Claude, Gemini, Deepseek Coder etc...)
Anything better than ChatGPT for coding yet (Claude, Gemini, Deepseek Coder etc...)
- REDDIT · 2026-10-17 · 39 UPVOTESIs there any hope that Deepseek will be good for RP again?
Is there any hope that Deepseek will be good for RP again?