DeepSeek-V3 vs Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
reflection · B · Open weights
Params
501.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-V3 | Beam-1.0-501B-A23B |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 684.5 B | 501.3 B |
| Architecture | DeepseekV3ForCausalLM | BeamForCausalLM |
| Context length | 163,840 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | — | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,420,996 | 4,432 |
| Downloads all time | 22.6 M | 4 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-12-25 | 2026-10-07 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.26 | $0.25 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.03 | $1.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.29 | $1.25 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | — |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,000 | 131,072 |
| API providers | 2 | 6 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-V3
$1.29
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
$1.25
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is 1.0× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
1.5 M2 K
DeepSeek-V3
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-V3 · fp16 @ 160K ctx
2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
10,727.8 GB / 24 GB