What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek OCR?

DeepSeek OCR requires approximately 6.7 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 and how large is it?

DeepSeek OCR is developed by unsloth, a model with 3.3b 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?

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

DeepSeek OCR by unsloth — VRAM 6.7GB, 8K context

Name: DeepSeek OCR
Author: unsloth

DeepSeek OCR is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 3.3b LLM, VRAM: 6.7GB, Context: 8K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Arxiv:2510.18234 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:finetune:deepseek-a... Custom code Deepseek Deepseek vl v2 Image-text-to-text Multilingual Ocr Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth Vision Vision-language

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-OCR

DeepSeek OCR Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek OCR
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-OCR
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek OCR deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Model Size	3.3b
Required VRAM	6.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	deepseek_vl_v2
Model Files	6.7 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	DeepseekOCRForCausalLM
License	mit
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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Best Alternatives to DeepSeek OCR

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
DeepSeek OCR	8K / 6.7 GB	2139941	3335
DeepSeek OCR Bf16	8K / 6.6 GB	83	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/DeepSeek-OCR.