DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Beam-1.0-501B-A23B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
5.6 M
mit · commercial OK
reflection · B · Open weights
Params
501.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 501.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM BeamForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 1,048,576
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 5,571,243 4,432
Downloads all time 30.7 M 4 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2026-10-07
API input price / 1M tokens $0.28 $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens $0.42 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.70 $1.25
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.028 $0.05
AA Intelligence Index 21.5 —
AA Coding Index 44.2 —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 65,536 131,072
API providers 11 6
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 $0.70
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B $1.25

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 1.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

5.6 M2 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 Beam-1.0-501B-A23B

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,815.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 10,727.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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