DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Hermes-4-405B

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

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4.3 M
mit · commercial OK
NousResearch · B · Open weights
Params
405.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
1 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hermes-4-405B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 405.9 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 131,072
Licence mit llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 1,216
Downloads all time 11.9 M 8 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-08-06
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $1.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $3.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $4.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 —
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 7.5
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 117,964
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
Hermes-4-405B $4.00

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 22.5× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 82 days (4 Aug – 24 Oct)

4.7 M1 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hermes-4-405B

VRAM side by side

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

Hermes-4-405B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,867.4 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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