Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF vs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

unsloth · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
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30d
1.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
763.2 B
Context
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30d
58 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters — 763.2 B
Architecture — DeepseekV41ForCausalLM
Context length — 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 1,339,001 57,715
Downloads all time 10.0 M 58 K
Quantizations on the Hub GGUF SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-28 2026-10-17
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.75
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.003
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 39.5
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 393,216
API providers not on OpenRouter 29
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-V4.1-Flash-1017 $0.75

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

1.6 M10 K
Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF · Q4_0 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 · fp16 676.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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