What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus?

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus requires approximately 171.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 160K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus and how large is it?

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is developed by unsloth, a model with 684.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus perform on standard benchmarks?

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1415. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus by unsloth — VRAM 171.8GB, 160K context

Name: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
Author: unsloth

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 684.5b LLM, VRAM: 171.8GB, Context: 160K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34, ELO: 1415.

Arxiv:2412.19437 Base model:deepseek-ai/deepsee... Base model:quantized:deepseek-... Conversational Custom code Deepseek v3 Endpoints compatible Fp8 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1415 vs 1272 (so35) 11.2%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
Base Model(s)	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
Model Size	684.5b
Required VRAM	171.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	deepseek_v3
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Model Architecture	DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	163840
Model Max Length	163840
Transformers Version	4.56.2
Vocabulary Size	129280
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
DeepSeek R1 0528	160K / 180.4 GB	244573	2457
DeepSeek V3	160K / 171.8 GB	1155192	4102
DeepSeek R1	160K / 180.4 GB	8739585	13461
DeepSeek V3 Base	160K / 171.8 GB	34207	1700
DeepSeek V3.0324	160K / 184.7 GB	835522	3148
DeepSeek V3	160K / 171.8 GB	20952	13
DeepSeek V3.1	160K / 176.1 GB	16	3
DeepSeek V3.1	160K / 180.4 GB	307929	826
DeepSeek R1 Block INT8	160K / 176.1 GB	171	50
DeepSeek R1	160K / 358.8 GB	444	52

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus.