DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1

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
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
140.6 B
Context
65,536
30d
46 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 140.6 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM MixtralForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 65,536
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 5
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 46,472
Downloads all time 11.9 M 6.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2024-04-16
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $2.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $6.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $8.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 $0.20
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 5.7
AA Coding Index 69.1 —
AA Agentic Index 41 —
Max output tokens 131,072 52,428
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.18
Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 $8.00

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 45.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

4.7 M44 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1

VRAM side by side

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

Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 · fp16 331.0 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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