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DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek-V2.5 is an AI model made by DeepSeek AI. DeepSeek AI released it on 5 September 2024. DeepSeek AI retired it on 24 July 2026. Its weights are open.
- Released
- 5 September 2024 — api-docs.deepseek.com, read 16 October 2026
- Status
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: retired and ga
- Takes
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: text, code and text
- Returns
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: text, code and text
- Open weights
- Yes — api-docs.deepseek.com, read 16 October 2026
- Licence
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: deepseek and MIT
- Context window
- Not confirmed: The DeepSeek-V2.5 model card and the maker's API documentation reviewed do not print a standard context-window value specifically for this model. Values for related DeepSeek-V2 models are not substituted.
- Longest answer
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not print a standard maximum-output limit specifically for DeepSeek-V2.5.
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not state a knowledge-cutoff date for DeepSeek-V2.5.
- API price, input
- Not confirmed: The current maker pricing page lists current models, but does not publish a standard input price for DeepSeek-V2.5. No price for another model or legacy alias is substituted.
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: The current maker pricing page lists current models, but does not publish a standard output price for DeepSeek-V2.5. No price for another model or legacy alias is substituted.
- Where
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: weights and api, weights
- Parameters
- 236,000,000,000 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
- Model card
- https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Benchmarks
Measured by others, not by the maker: each score with the name the measurer gives the model and the setting it ran, its day and its licence.
Arena
- Text Arena, deepseek-v2.5: 1,307 (1,302–1,312, 24,572 votes), published 15 October 2026
Arena’s leaderboard dataset (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face), CC BY 4.0: ratings from people’s votes between two anonymous models, as Arena publishes them. Data · CC BY 4.0
Questions
When was DeepSeek-V2.5 released?
DeepSeek AI released DeepSeek-V2.5 on 5 September 2024.
Are the weights of DeepSeek-V2.5 open?
Yes: DeepSeek AI publishes the weights of DeepSeek-V2.5 for download.
How many parameters does DeepSeek-V2.5 have?
DeepSeek-V2.5 has 236,000,000,000 parameters, as DeepSeek AI publishes it.
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Sources
- DeepSeek-V2.5: A New Open-Source Model Combining General and Coding Capabilities (read 16 October 2026)
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5 (read 16 October 2026)
- DeepSeek V4 Preview Release (read 16 October 2026)
- Models & Pricing (read 16 October 2026)