DeepSeek-V3-0324 vs Kimi-K2.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 14 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.0 M
mit · commercial OK
mlx-community · B
Params
1,026.4 B
Context
30d
166 K

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-V3-0324 Kimi-K2.5
Parameters 684.5 B 1,026.4 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 163,840
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 1,022,331 166,174
Downloads all time 9.4 M 6.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-24 2026-01-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.2 M166 K
DeepSeek-V3-0324 Kimi-K2.5

VRAM side by side

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

Kimi-K2.5 · fp16 877.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V3-0324 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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