DeepSeek-V3 vs Hy4-preview
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
tencent · B · Open weights
Params
780.0 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
18 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-V3 | Hy4-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 684.5 B | 780.0 B |
| Architecture | DeepseekV3ForCausalLM | HYV4ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 163,840 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | — | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,420,996 | 18,369 |
| Downloads all time | 22.6 M | 39 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-12-25 | 2026-08-27 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.26 | $0.83 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.03 | $2.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.29 | $3.34 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $0.042 |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | — |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,000 | 64,000 |
| API providers | 2 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-V3
$1.29
Hy4-preview
$3.34
DeepSeek-V3 is 2.6× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
1.5 M18 K
DeepSeek-V3
Hy4-preview
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-V3 · fp16 @ 160K ctx
2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
Hy4-preview · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
16,691.7 GB / 24 GB