DeepSeek-V4-Pro vs Kimi-K2.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 14 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
1,598.8 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
336 K
mit · commercial OK
mlx-community · B · Open weights
Params
1,026.4 B
Context
—
30d
166 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V4-Pro Kimi-K2.5
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 1,598.8 B 1,026.4 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 1,048,576 —
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 335,647 166,174
Downloads all time 11.2 M 6.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-22 2026-01-27
API input price / 1M tokens $0.96 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $1.91 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.87 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.08 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 12.6 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 384,000 not on OpenRouter
API providers 12 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Pro $2.87

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.4 M166 K
DeepSeek-V4-Pro Kimi-K2.5

VRAM side by side

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

Kimi-K2.5 · fp16 877.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Pro · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 31,649.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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