DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs GLM-5

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
753.9 B
Context
202,752
30d
977 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GLM-5
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 753.9 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 202,752
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 4,297,931 977,411
Downloads all time 11.7 M 2.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2026-02-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.44 $1.00
API output price / 1M tokens $1.32 $3.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.76 $4.20
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.014 $0.20
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 27.9
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 131,072
API providers 23 8
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-5 $4.20

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 2.4× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

4.7 M157 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GLM-5

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-5 · fp16 @ 198K ctx 4,457.7 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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