DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs MiniMax-M2.5

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

deepseek-ai · A
Params
158.1 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.6 M
mit · commercial OK
MiniMaxAI · B
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
324 K

Specification comparison

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Specification DeepSeek-V4-Flash MiniMax-M2.5
Parameters 158.1 B 228.7 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 196,608
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 1,559,750 323,999
Downloads all time 12.0 M 4.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-22 2026-02-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

3.1 M324 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash MiniMax-M2.5

VRAM side by side

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

MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,077.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 3,211.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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