DeepSeek-V3 vs Trinity-Large-Thinking

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.3 M
arcee-ai · B · Open weights
Params
398.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
2 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3 Trinity-Large-Thinking
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 398.6 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM AfmoeForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 262,144
Licence — other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages — 11
Downloads 30d 1,344,492 2,245
Downloads all time 22.5 M 72 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-12-25 2026-04-01
API input price / 1M tokens $0.26 $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens $1.03 $0.80
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.29 $1.05
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.06
AA Intelligence Index — 10.8
AA Coding Index — 25.8
AA Agentic Index — 1
Max output tokens 16,000 80,000
API providers 2 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3 $1.29
Trinity-Large-Thinking $1.05

Trinity-Large-Thinking is 1.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

1.5 M2 K
DeepSeek-V3 Trinity-Large-Thinking

VRAM side by side

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

Trinity-Large-Thinking · fp16 @ 256K ctx 2,791.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V3 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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