DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24)
Analysis Summary
DeepSeek-V2.5, released in December 2024, provides moderate general reasoning capability at a competitive price, though it falls well short of current frontier benchmarks.
It is a reasonable fit for general text generation, light coding assistance, and cost-sensitive automation, but not for complex agentic or high-stakes reasoning tasks.
Its affordability makes it attractive for high-volume, lower-stakes workloads, though businesses needing strong reasoning should look to newer models.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
DeepSeek-V2.5 offers modest general reasoning at a low price point, suited to budget-conscious general tasks.
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DFO Verdict
DeepSeek-V2.5 offers modest general reasoning at a low price point, suited to budget-conscious general tasks.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
6.8 Intelligence Index
How DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) compares
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) ranks #303 of 398 AI models we track for overall intelligence. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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How much does DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) cost?
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Who created DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24)?
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Dec ’24) is developed by DeepSeek and was released on December 10, 2024.
