DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs GLM-4.5-Air

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4.3 M
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
110.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
818 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GLM-4.5-Air
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 110.5 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM Glm4MoeForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 131,072
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 4,297,931 817,559
Downloads all time 11.7 M 5.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-07-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.44 $0.13
API output price / 1M tokens $1.32 $0.85
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.76 $0.98
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.014 $0.025
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 11.1
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 98,304
API providers 23 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $1.76
GLM-4.5-Air $0.98

GLM-4.5-Air is 1.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 81 days (4 Aug – 23 Oct)

4.7 M184 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GLM-4.5-Air A overtook B on 5 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-4.5-Air · fp16 @ 128K ctx 508.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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