DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Hy3-preview

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
tencent · B · Open weights
Params
298.8 B
Context
262,144
30d
85 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy3-preview
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 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 84,611
Downloads all time 11.9 M 491 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2026-04-13
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $0.18
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $0.78
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 $0.06
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 25.3
AA Coding Index 69.1 58.8
AA Agentic Index 41 24.1
Max output tokens 131,072 235,929
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
Hy3-preview $0.78

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 4.4× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

4.7 M88 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy3-preview

VRAM side by side

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

Hy3-preview · 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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