DeepSeek Coder
the brand is now an api alias — and the models behind it went from a restrictive weights licence to plain mit.
the strongest swe-bench numbers here under a licence that got more permissive rather than less — with no small variant left for anyone who wanted the original.
deepseek moved in the opposite direction to everyone else in this ranking. the original 2023 coder generation paired mit code with a separate, more restrictive custom weights licence; the current v4 weights are plain mit for both. in a field where minimax relicensed to non-commercial after launch and mistral gates its best coder behind a revenue cliff, a vendor loosening its terms deserves saying out loud.
the performance is the top of this page: 80.6% swe-bench verified for v4-pro and 79.0% for v4-flash, with 55.2% on livecodebench in flash's non-thinking mode. these are aggregated figures rather than ones we confirmed on deepseek's own benchmark page.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- coding llms
- pricing
- free (mit)
- website
- huggingface.co
the strongest swe-bench numbers here under a licence that got more permissive rather than less — with no small variant left for anyone who wanted the original.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.