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Run DeepSeek Coder Locally with Ollama

DeepSeek is one of the world's best free coding AIs. Run it 100% offline on your PC in under 10 minutes.

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What is DeepSeek?

DeepSeek Coder is a state-of-the-art open-source coding model that rivals GPT-4 for many coding tasks — and it's completely free.

Why DeepSeek?

  • 🏆 Ranks #1 on many coding benchmarks
  • 🆓 Fully open source (MIT License)
  • 🔒 Runs locally — your code stays private
  • ⚡ Fast responses on modern hardware

Install Ollama First

DeepSeek runs through Ollama. If you haven't installed it yet:

Mac/Windows: Download from ollama.com

Linux:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

See our full Install Ollama guide if you need help.

📌 Important
You need at least 8 GB RAM for the 6.7B model and 16 GB RAM for the 33B model.

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