DeepSeek-R1 vs GLM-4.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.4 M
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
358.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
114 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1 GLM-4.5
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 358.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM Glm4MoeForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 131,072
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 1,391,551 113,929
Downloads all time 50.3 M 1.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2025-07-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.70 $0.60
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $2.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.20 $2.80
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.11
AA Intelligence Index 11.4 12.8
AA Coding Index 24.6 —
AA Agentic Index 1.1 —
Max output tokens 16,000 98,304
API providers — 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-R1 $3.20
GLM-4.5 $2.80

GLM-4.5 is 1.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

9.9 M117 K
DeepSeek-R1 GLM-4.5

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

GLM-4.5 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,648.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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