What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash requires approximately 154.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1024K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek V4 Flash and how large is it?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is developed by mlx-community, a model with 284.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek V4 Flash by mlx-community — VRAM 154.8GB, 1024K context

Name: DeepSeek V4 Flash
Author: mlx-community

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 284.3b LLM, VRAM: 154.8GB, Context: 1024K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash

DeepSeek V4 Flash Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek V4 Flash
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Base Model(s)	DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Model Size	284.3b
Required VRAM	154.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	deepseek_v4
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-33 4.8 GB: 2-of-33 4.9 GB: 3-of-33 4.7 GB: 4-of-33 4.7 GB: 5-of-33 4.9 GB: 6-of-33 4.7 GB: 7-of-33 4.7 GB: 8-of-33 4.9 GB: 9-of-33 4.7 GB: 10-of-33 4.7 GB: 11-of-33 4.9 GB: 12-of-33 4.7 GB: 13-of-33 4.7 GB: 14-of-33 4.9 GB: 15-of-33 4.7 GB: 16-of-33 4.7 GB: 17-of-33 4.9 GB: 18-of-33 4.7 GB: 19-of-33 4.7 GB: 20-of-33 4.9 GB: 21-of-33 4.7 GB: 22-of-33 4.7 GB: 23-of-33 4.9 GB: 24-of-33 4.7 GB: 25-of-33 4.7 GB: 26-of-33 4.9 GB: 27-of-33 4.7 GB: 28-of-33 4.7 GB: 29-of-33 4.9 GB: 30-of-33 4.7 GB: 31-of-33 4.7 GB: 32-of-33 1.7 GB: 33-of-33
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	1048576
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	129280
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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DeepSeek V4 Flash BF16	1024K / 568.7 GB	360	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash Mxfp8	1024K / 154.8 GB	808	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Bf16	1024K / 162.3 GB	400	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash Mxfp4	1024K / 151.1 GB	366	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash 4bit	1024K / 152.2 GB	12635	25
DeepSeek V4 Flash 2bit M DQ	1024K / 106.4 GB	785	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit DQ	1024K / 128.9 GB	696	2
...seek Ai DeepSeek V4 Flash 3bit	1024K / 124.3 GB	477	1
...seek Ai DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit	1024K / 230.9 GB	367	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash 2bit DQ	1024K / 96.3 GB	14425	47

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