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Deepseek Coder
by DeepSeek
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RANKED #3 OF 8 CODE · OVERALL #151 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.0 · 153 VOICES
Deepseek Coder from Deepseek.
HAPPY9.0
22 mentions
SAD6.0
19 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 84 voices
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 WEIGHTS6.6
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BAlibabaPick it when you need top tier autonomous coding quality on dedicated hardware.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE415 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6Qwen3 Coder NextAlibabaPick it for fast and efficient local coding assistance on consumer grade hardware.⚡ FAST🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE100 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Deepseek Coder. Biggest praise: help with code.
119 POSTS · 34 COMMENTS · GITHUB · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (10 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Coding help disappoints some people (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
10 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 · 2026-05-01 · 47 UPVOTESWhy no one is talking aobut Deepseek coder being the goat?
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- 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...)