DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

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
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
235.1 B
Context
262,144
30d
16 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 304.2 B 235.1 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 262,144
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,348,313 15,922
Downloads all time 11.9 M 662 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-31 2025-07-25
API input price / 1M tokens $0.044 $0.45
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $3.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.18 $3.95
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.0014 —
AA Intelligence Index 34.3 12.7
AA Coding Index 69.1 22.1
AA Agentic Index 41 1.3
Max output tokens 131,072 16,384
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
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 $3.95

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 22.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

4.7 M17 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 1,646.2 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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