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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
235.1 B
Context
40,960
30d
307 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
2.7 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-235B-A22B DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 235.1 B 304.2 B
Architecture Qwen3MoeForCausalLM DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 306,653 2,697,621
Downloads all time 7.7 M 13.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-07-31
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.043
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.30
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.34
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.035
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 69.1
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 41
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 943,718
API providers not on OpenRouter 24
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.34

Download trend

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

4.7 M296 K
Qwen3-235B-A22B DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-235B-A22B · fp16 553.0 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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