DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Hy4-preview

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 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
780.0 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
18 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy4-preview
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 780.0 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM HYV4ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,315,560 18,369
Downloads all time 12.1 M 39 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2026-08-27
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $0.83
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $2.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $3.34
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 $0.042
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 —
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 64,000
API providers 22 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 $0.18
Hy4-preview $3.34

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 18.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 83 days (4 Aug – 25 Oct)

4.7 M18 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Hy4-preview

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Hy4-preview · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 16,691.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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