DeepSeek-R1 vs Trinity-Large-Thinking

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
arcee-ai · B · Open weights
Params
398.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
2 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1 Trinity-Large-Thinking
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 398.6 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM AfmoeForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 262,144
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 11
Downloads 30d 1,391,551 2,245
Downloads all time 50.3 M 72 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2026-04-01
API input price / 1M tokens $0.70 $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $0.80
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.20 $1.05
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.06
AA Intelligence Index 11.4 10.8
AA Coding Index 24.6 25.8
AA Agentic Index 1.1 1
Max output tokens 16,000 80,000
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
Trinity-Large-Thinking $1.05

Trinity-Large-Thinking is 3.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

9.9 M2 K
DeepSeek-R1 Trinity-Large-Thinking

VRAM side by side

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

Trinity-Large-Thinking · fp16 @ 256K ctx 2,791.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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