DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724: Self-Hosting & Deployment Guide
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model specialised for code.
What is DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724?
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model specialised for code, published by DeepSeek with open weights at deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724. LLM API does not route this model today, so there is no endpoint or code sample for it here. What this page does give you is the self-hosting picture: published weight sizes, the VRAM each quantisation needs and the commands to serve it yourself. Every figure is read from the public repository and refreshed weekly.
How to run DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 yourself
Open weights (other), 235.7B parameters. Below: how much memory the weights need at each quantization, which hardware fits them, and the commands to serve it.
DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 VRAM requirements
| Precision / quantization | Weights | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 (full precision) | 471.5 GB | Estimate | 235.7B params × 2 bytes |
| FP8 | 236.8 GB | File size | RedHatAI/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-FP8 |
| GGUF Q8_0 | 250.6 GB | File size | bartowski/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF |
| GGUF Q4_K_M | 142.5 GB | File size | bartowski/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF |
| GGUF Q2_K | 85.9 GB | File size | bartowski/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF |
File size = actual download size on Hugging Face. Estimate = parameter count × bytes per weight. Weights only — the KV cache for long contexts needs extra memory; the fit tables below add 15% headroom as a rule of thumb.
GPU requirements: deploy DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 on your hardware
| Hardware | BF16 (full precision) | FP8 | GGUF Q8_0 | GGUF Q4_K_M | GGUF Q2_K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200141 GB | 4× | 2× | 3× | 2× | 1× |
| NVIDIA H10080 GB | 7× | 4× | 4× | 3× | 2× |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB80 GB | 7× | 4× | 4× | 3× | 2× |
| NVIDIA L40S48 GB | — | 6× | 7× | 4× | 3× |
GPUs needed per variant.
| Hardware | GGUF Q8_0 | GGUF Q4_K_M | GGUF Q2_K |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 509032 GB | — | 6× | 4× |
| RTX 409024 GB | — | 7× | 5× |
| RTX 309024 GB | — | 7× | 5× |
GGUF via llama.cpp; more cards or CPU offload for larger files.
| Hardware | GGUF Q8_0 | GGUF Q4_K_M | GGUF Q2_K |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mac, 512 GBM3 Ultra | Fits | Fits | Fits |
| Mac, 192 GBM2 Ultra | — | — | Fits |
| Mac, 128 GBM4 Max / M3 Max | — | — | — |
| Mac, 64 GBM4 Pro / Max | — | — | — |
Assumes ~75% of unified memory is usable by the GPU.
| Hardware | BF16 (full precision) | FP8 | GGUF Q8_0 | GGUF Q4_K_M | GGUF Q2_K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS p5.48xlarge8× H100 · 640 GB | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits |
| AWS p4de.24xlarge8× A100 80GB · 640 GB | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits |
| AWS g6e.12xlarge4× L40S · 192 GB | — | — | — | Fits | Fits |
| Google Cloud a3-highgpu-8g8× H100 · 640 GB | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits |
| Azure ND H100 v58× H100 · 640 GB | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits | Fits |
Whole-instance GPU memory; public instance specs.
Serve it yourself
pip install -U vllm
vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724pip install 'sglang[all]'
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724llama-server -hf bartowski/DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct-0724-GGUF:Q4_K_M \
--ctx-size 32768 --n-gpu-layers 99Commands use the official repositories above; vLLM and SGLang expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Not on LLM.API yet
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Not available on LLM API yet
We do not route this model through our API at the moment, so there is no endpoint or code snippet for it yet. Browse the models you can call today — most workloads have a close match already live.
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When to Use — When NOT to Use
Use it if...
- You want to run DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct 0724 on your own hardware and keep every prompt inside your network
- The weights are published openly, so you can pin one checkpoint and keep it reproducible
- You want to fine-tune or quantise the model rather than accept a hosted configuration
- Your workload is code generation, review or repair on a private repository
Avoid if...
- LLM API does not route this model today, so there is no endpoint here to call
- You have no GPU capacity: the VRAM figures below are the floor, not a suggestion
- You want zero operations — serving, scaling and upgrades are yours to run
- You need image, audio or video input; this checkpoint is text in, text out
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