DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Hy3

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
tencent · B · Open weights
Params
298.8 B
Context
262,144
30d
798 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy3
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 298.8 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM HYV3ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 262,144
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,297,931 797,888
Downloads all time 11.7 M 842 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2026-07-02
API input price / 1M tokens $0.44 $0.13
API output price / 1M tokens $1.32 $0.53
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.76 $0.66
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.014 $0.033
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 —
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 128,000
API providers 23 5
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
Hy3 $0.66

Hy3 is 2.7× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

4.7 M188 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy3

VRAM side by side

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

Hy3 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 2,092.0 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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