What are the hardware requirements for Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct?

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct requires approximately 2.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct and how large is it?

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 1.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct perform on standard benchmarks?

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct has the following published scores: MMLU 28.47. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct by deepseek-ai — VRAM 2.7GB, 16K context

Name: Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Author: deepseek-ai

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 1.3b LLM, VRAM: 2.7GB, Context: 16K, License: other, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21, Arc: 28.6, HellaSwag: 39.9, MMLU: 28.5, GSM8K: 1.1.

Codegen Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct

Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

code generation

Use Cases

Areas:

coding assistant, software development

Applications:

code completion, project-level code corpus analysis

Primary Use Cases:

code completion, code infilling

Supported Languages

English (fluent), Chinese (fluent)

Training Details

Data Sources:

2T tokens consisting of 87% code and 13% natural language in both English and Chinese

Data Volume:

2T tokens

Context Length:

16000

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Deepseek Coder 1.3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct
Model Size	1.3b
Required VRAM	2.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.7 GB 2.7 GB
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.33.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Beginning of Sentence Token	<｜begin▁of▁sentence｜>
End of Sentence Token	<\|EOT\|>
Vocabulary Size	32256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Model	Likes	Downloads
...pseek Coder 1.3B Instruct GGUF	54	12038
...pseek Coder 1.3B Instruct GPTQ	7	91
...epseek Coder 1.3B Instruct AWQ	5	80

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