DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Lite 16B

what it does

Try local code generation and completion with DeepSeek's smaller mixture-of-experts model.

good fit for

• Local coding prototypes
• Developers comparing code-specialized models

why consider it

• The 16B Lite variant, not the 236B model
• An instruction-style chat template

main limitations

• Active parameter count is not the memory requirement
• Model weights have separate terms from the MIT repository code

cost and access

• Free local download for uses allowed by its license.
• Bring your own hardware and cover its running costs.

getting started

• Load deepseek-coder-v2:16b and test a small function against an existing test suite.