DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniMax-M2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

deepseek-ai · A
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
2.5 M
mit · commercial OK
MiniMaxAI · B
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
271 K

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 MiniMax-M2
Parameters 685.4 B 228.7 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 196,608
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 2,488,767 271,081
Downloads all time 24.5 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2025-10-22

Download trend

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

2.5 M181 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 MiniMax-M2

VRAM side by side

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

MiniMax-M2 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,076.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V3.2 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,815.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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