DeepSeek-R1 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-R1 | Qwen3-235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 684.5 B | 235.1 B |
| Architecture | DeepseekV3ForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 163,840 | 40,960 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,934,359 | 694,579 |
| Downloads all time | 46.8 M | 6.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-20 | 2025-04-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
9.9 M694 K
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen3-235B-A22B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-235B-A22B · fp16
553.0 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx
2,811.5 GB / 24 GB