Kimi-K3-DSpark vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

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

RadixArk · A
Params
2.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
3.7 M
deepseek-ai · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
431 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Kimi-K3-DSpark DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Parameters 2.3 B 1.8 B
Architecture DSparkDraftModel Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 131,072
Licence mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,658,082 430,987
Downloads all time 6.5 M 21.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 51 days (2 Aug – 21 Sep)

3.7 M168 K
Kimi-K3-DSpark DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B A overtook B on 5 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 48.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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