DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Kimi-K2-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

deepseek-ai · A
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4.1 M
mit · commercial OK
moonshotai · B
Params
1,026.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
219 K

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Kimi-K2-Instruct
Parameters 304.2 B 1,026.5 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 131,072
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,086,610 218,841
Downloads all time 7.0 M 4.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-07-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 49 days (4 Aug – 21 Sep)

4.7 M162 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Kimi-K2-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Kimi-K2-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 3,596.1 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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