What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit requires approximately 153.5 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 6bit and how large is it?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit 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 6bit?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 153.5GB, 1024K context

Name: DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit
Author: mlx-community

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 284.3b LLM, VRAM: 153.5GB, Context: 1024K, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

6-bit 6bit Conversational Deepseek v4 En Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-6bit

DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-6bit
Model Size	284.3b
Required VRAM	153.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	deepseek_v4
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-33 4.7 GB: 2-of-33 4.8 GB: 3-of-33 4.7 GB: 4-of-33 4.7 GB: 5-of-33 4.8 GB: 6-of-33 4.7 GB: 7-of-33 4.7 GB: 8-of-33 4.8 GB: 9-of-33 4.7 GB: 10-of-33 4.7 GB: 11-of-33 4.8 GB: 12-of-33 4.7 GB: 13-of-33 4.7 GB: 14-of-33 4.8 GB: 15-of-33 4.7 GB: 16-of-33 4.7 GB: 17-of-33 4.8 GB: 18-of-33 4.7 GB: 19-of-33 4.7 GB: 20-of-33 4.8 GB: 21-of-33 4.7 GB: 22-of-33 4.7 GB: 23-of-33 4.8 GB: 24-of-33 4.7 GB: 25-of-33 4.7 GB: 26-of-33 4.8 GB: 27-of-33 4.7 GB: 28-of-33 4.7 GB: 29-of-33 4.8 GB: 30-of-33 4.7 GB: 31-of-33 4.7 GB: 32-of-33 1.6 GB: 33-of-33
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
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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Best Alternatives to DeepSeek V4 Flash 6bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
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
DeepSeek V4 Flash 2bit DQ	1024K / 96.3 GB	14425	47
...seek Ai DeepSeek V4 Flash 8bit	1024K / 215.2 GB	3577	12
...seek Ai DeepSeek V4 Flash 4bit	1024K / 159.7 GB	1223	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash BF16	1024K / 568.7 GB	360	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash Mxfp8	1024K / 154.8 GB	808	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-6bit.