What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek OCR 2?

DeepSeek OCR 2 requires approximately 6.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek OCR 2 and how large is it?

DeepSeek OCR 2 is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 3.4b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate DeepSeek OCR 2?

DeepSeek OCR 2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek OCR 2 by deepseek-ai — VRAM 6.8GB, 8K context

Name: DeepSeek OCR 2
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek OCR 2 is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 3.4b LLM, VRAM: 6.8GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.41.

Arxiv:2510.18234 Arxiv:2601.20552 Custom code Deepseek Deepseek vl v2 Eval-results Feature-extraction Image-text-to-text Multilingual Ocr Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision Vision-language

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2

DeepSeek OCR 2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek OCR 2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2
Model Size	3.4b
Required VRAM	6.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	deepseek_vl_v2
Model Files	6.8 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	DeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<｜▁pad▁｜>
Vocabulary Size	129280
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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