DeepSeek AI Models Explained: A Model Hierarchy Mind Map
DeepSeek V4, V3, R1, V2 and the first DeepSeek LLM, plus the coding, math and vision models. Here is every DeepSeek model, split by generation and version, newest first.
DeepSeek V4
DeepSeek V4.12026
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (Oct 2026)
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Sep 2026)
DeepSeek V42026
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (Aug 2026)
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 (Aug 2026)
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (Jul 2026)
DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Apr 2026)
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Apr 2026)
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek V3.22025
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Dec 2025)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale (Dec 2025)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (Sep 2025)
DeepSeek V3.12025
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Sep 2025)
DeepSeek-V3.1 (Aug 2025)
DeepSeek V3 (2024 and 2025)
DeepSeek-V3-0324 (Mar 2025)
DeepSeek-V3 (Dec 2024)
DeepSeek R1 (reasoning)
DeepSeek R12025
DeepSeek-R1-0528 (May 2025)
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (May 2025)Distilled
DeepSeek-R1 (Jan 2025)
DeepSeek-R1-Zero (Jan 2025)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill (Jan 2025)Qwen 1.5B to 32B, Llama 8B and 70B
DeepSeek R1-Lite2024
DeepSeek-R1-Lite (Nov 2024)
DeepSeek V2
DeepSeek V2.52024
DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 (Dec 2024)
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
DeepSeek V22024
DeepSeek-V2-Lite (May 2024)
DeepSeek-V2 (May 2024)
DeepSeek LLM (first generation)
DeepSeek MoE2024
DeepSeek-MoE 16B (Jan 2024)
DeepSeek LLM2023
DeepSeek LLM 67B (Nov 2023)Base and Chat
DeepSeek LLM 7B (Nov 2023)Base and Chat
Coding models
DeepSeek-Coder-V22024
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-0724 (Jul 2024)
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 (Jun 2024)236B and 16B Lite
DeepSeek-Coder (2023 and 2024)
DeepSeek-Coder 7B v1.5 (Jan 2024)
DeepSeek-Coder (Nov 2023)1.3B, 6.7B and 33B
Math and proof models
Math and proof2025
DeepSeek-Math-V2 (Nov 2025)
DeepSeek-Prover-V2 (Apr 2025)671B and 7B
Math and proof2024
DeepSeek-Prover-V1.5 (Aug 2024)
DeepSeek-Math 7B (Feb 2024)
Vision and image models
Vision2026
DeepSeek-OCR 2 (Jan 2026)
Vision2025
DeepSeek-OCR (Oct 2025)
Janus-Pro (Jan 2025)7B and 1B
Vision2024
DeepSeek-VL2 (Dec 2024)Tiny, Small and full
JanusFlow 1.3B (Nov 2024)
Janus 1.3B (Oct 2024)
DeepSeek-VL (Mar 2024)7B and 1.3B
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