DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
158.1 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
809 K
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 | Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 158.1 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 | 809,273 | 46,472 |
| Downloads all time | 12.9 M | 6.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-22 | 2024-04-16 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.091 | $2.00 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.18 | $6.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.27 | $8.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.018 | $0.20 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 24.4 | 5.7 |
| AA Coding Index | 52 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 26.3 | — |
| Max output tokens | 943,717 | 52,428 |
| API providers | 15 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
$0.27
Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1
$8.00
DeepSeek-V4-Flash is 29.3× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
3.1 M44 K
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
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
DeepSeek-V4-Flash · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
3,211.0 GB / 24 GB