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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark

deepseek-ai MIT out 4 months ago

165B parameters (6 of 256 experts per token), text in, text out, 1M tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #384 in LLMs · score 79.9 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 148.6k · #272 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?99GB at INT4Estimatefits 2×80 GBmethod
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?148.6kdownloads, 30 days#272 of 619 we track · top 44%+7 likes, downloads −4% this week308 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 27 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 796 HN pts
arcprize.org 2026-08-07 796 HN pts · 476 comments 5.3k words about the DeepSeek V4 family family
Latest · 38 days ago

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

Cactus releases Needle 3, a foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers.

  • A required argument with no default and no evidence in the request is withheld rather than guessed.
cactuscompute.com 2026-09-18 236 HN pts · 93 comments 1.5k words about the DeepSeek V4 family family

25 best of 27 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleDeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-expapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-21 · 498 HN pts · official
  2. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813openrouter.ai · 2026-08-12
  3. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Flash Updateapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-07-31 · 745 HN pts · official
  4. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · 2026-07-31 · 594 HN pts
  5. CodeDeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300Xgithub.com · 2026-08-04 · 382 HN pts
  6. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publishapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-12 · official
  7. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly releasedapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-08-12 · official
  8. ArticleDeepSeek v4api-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-04-24 · 2,091 HN pts · official
  9. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precisionruntimewire.com · 2026-06-08
  10. ArticleDeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontiersimonwillison.net · 2026-05-01 · 677 HN pts
  11. ArticleShow HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent spaceblog.n.ichol.ai · 2026-08-09 · 30 HN pts
  12. CodeDeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Progithub.com · 2026-05-03
  13. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 Mayapi-docs.deepseek.com · 2026-05-06 · official
  14. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harnessantigma.ai · 2026-08-09 · 37 HN pts
  15. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Changekucoin.com · 2026-06-29
  16. ArticleHaving fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLIflashblaze.xyz · 2026-08-02
  17. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting againseangoedecke.com · 2026-05-16
  18. ArticleBringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300Xfergusfinn.com · 2026-06-02
  19. ArticleDeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Mileslmsys.org · 2026-04-25
  20. ArticleDeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Fearedhelloai.com · 2026-05-15
  21. ArticleDeepSeek V4 Pro at 5% the cost of Claude – what it takes to close the gaphowardchen.substack.com · 2026-06-16
  22. CodeDeepSeek-v4-flash-0731-spark-sparkinfer: DeepSeek V4 Flash on one DGX Sparkgithub.com · 2026-09-10
  23. ArticleDeepSeek-V4-Flash (official FP8) running across 2x DGX Sparkforums.developer.nvidia.com · 2026-06-02

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 13 quantized builds.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware13quantized builds
  • Built on44 fine-tunes · 0 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps0Hugging Face Spaces

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits two 80 GB GPUs at INT4; too big for one

About 99 GB at INT4, 198 GB at FP8, 397 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 99 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT499 GBFP8: about 198 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8198 GBBF16: about 397 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16397 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 99 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT499 GBFP8: about 198 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8198 GBBF16: about 397 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF16397 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

10 dated articles and 6 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2026-06-27), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

17 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

17 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

13 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)4 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)13 quantized4 fine-tunes
13 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)4 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)13 quantized4 fine-tunes

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

25 rows

Benchmarks 25 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (25)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AGIEval (EM)82.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported BBH (EM)86.9DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported BigCodeBench · Write code with agents56.8 pass@1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported C-Eval · Work across languages92.1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported CLUEWSC (EM)82.2DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported CMMLU · Work across languages90.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Commonsense QA sets · Chat and follow instructions82.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported DROP (F1)88.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported FACTS Parametric (EM)33.9DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported GSM8K · Reason through hard problems90.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported HellaSwag · Chat and follow instructions85.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported HumanEval · Write code with agents69.5 pass@1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported LongBench v2 · Read long documents44.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MATH-500 · Reason through hard problems57.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MATH-500 · Reason through hard problems93.6DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MGSM · Work across languages85.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems88.7DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems89.4DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems68.3DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems87.5DeepSeek-V4-Pro Maxmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MMMLU · Work across languages88.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported MultiLoKo (EM)42.2DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported SimpleQA · Reason through hard problems30.1DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported SuperGPQA · Reason through hard problems46.5DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Winogrande · Chat and follow instructions79.5DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Basemodel author2026-10-07

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesDeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Model typedeepseek_v4
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 1,483,567,488 · F32: 37,741,630 · F8_E4M3: 6,304,038,912 · I8: 148,176,371,712 · I64: 2,327,040 · F8_E8M0: 9,261,408,000
Size bandXXL
MoEyes
Experts256
Experts per token6
Context length1,048,576 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2606.19348
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · DeepseekV4ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · DeepseekV4ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)397 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)198 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)99 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

17 variants

Lineage

Original release (shipped quantized by the lab) Family: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4 17 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 13finetune: 4

Top variants (17 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
drowzeys/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated-Uncensored quantized — 304B XXL mit drowzeys 90 25.8k
alessandrobologna/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Drafter-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit alessandrobologna 2 6.4k
lovesenko/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated quantized — 165B XXL mit lovesenko 9 6k
AtlasCloud/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-FP8-dspark_only quantized -FP8 19.8B L — AtlasCloud 0 1.8k
sakamakismile/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-support-ds4-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit sakamakismile 5 1k
drowzeys/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated-Uncensored-v1.1-alpha-Mida-Brikie quantized — 165B XXL mit drowzeys 5 574
anemll/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-NVFP4-TP2-W4A4-v1 quantized NVFP4 167B XXL mit anemll 3 507
drowzeys/keys-vllm-0.25.2-Anemll-MiaAI_lab-DSV4F-DSpark-100pct-Abliterated-Dual-DGX-Sparks quantized — 165B XXL other drowzeys 6 78
TensorFold/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-MLX quantized MLX 3.16B M mit TensorFold 0 331
yailabs/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit yailabs 0 329
Valent1qw/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated quantized — 165B XXL mit Valent1qw 1 262
amesianx/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated quantized — 304B XXL mit amesianx 0 137
piroman441/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark quantized — 304B XXL mit piroman441 0 114
inference-optimization/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-2.1B-A1.9B-small finetune — 2.09B M mit inference-optimization 0 59
drowzeys/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-NVFP4-KV-1.5M-CTX-2xDGX-Spark finetune NVFP4 — — apache-2.0 drowzeys 1 0
redhunt07/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark-Abliterated-COMBINED-Q2-DS4.gguf finetune gguf — — mit redhunt07 1 0
RaffaelloMolinari/Deepseek-V4-Flash-Dspark-FST finetune — — — other RaffaelloMolinari 0 0

Repository changelog

6 commits

Repository changelog 6 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-07-04 Update README.md to add vLLM snippet (#2) 62af8ff
2026-06-27 update 913f065
2026-06-27 upload readme 584bd00
2026-06-27 upload code and config aa22cb0
2026-06-27 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 0c6de36
2026-06-27 initial commit c530429

Articles and coverage

27 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official3

api-docs.deepseek.com2026-08-21officialauthorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 498 pts · 154 comments1,275 words
The deepseek-flash model accepts images alongside text for tasks like describing pictures or analyzing charts. Inline images and external URLs count toward the 48 MiB request body limit and are capped at 32 MiB per image, while Files API references support up to 64 MiB. Every image is automatically resized to an upper bound of 1024 tokens regardless of original dimensions.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model detects image format from file content rather than the filename or declared MIME type.
  • Requests containing 15 or more images reduce the maximum image dimension to 4096 pixels per side.
  • Images in system or assistant messages are rejected with a 400 error instead of being processed.
api-docs.deepseek.com2026-07-31officialauthorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 745 pts · 347 comments387 words
The DeepSeek API supports OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs via compatible configurations. The deepseek-flash model is now served by DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, while legacy names deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp remain accepted but are retired and billed at the Flash price. Users apply for an API key to access these models.written, reviewed, cited
api-docs.deepseek.com2026-04-24officialauthorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 2,091 pts · 1,607 comments326 words

Analysis7

cactuscompute.com2026-09-18HN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 236 pts · 93 comments1,466 words
Cactus releases Needle 3, a foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. The model uses intelligence laddering to produce 9 to 29 MB CQ2-bit binaries with 400-4k tokens/s decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Needle 3 specializes in local tool calling and structured extraction, matching DeepSeek V4 Flash when tuned on downstream tasks for one epoch.written, reviewed, cited
  • A required argument with no default and no evidence in the request is withheld rather than guessed.
artificialanalysis.ai2026-07-31authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 594 pts · 312 comments1,118 words
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Max) is a 284B parameter open-weight model released on July 31, 2026, under the MIT license. It scores 34 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index while costing $0.14 per 1M input tokens and utilizing only 13B active parameters during inference. The model supports a 1M token context window and outputs text at 149.8 tokens per second.written, reviewed, cited
  • This model is deprecated and benchmarking continues only for the default 10k input token workload.
  • The model is notably fast but generates output that is very verbose compared to the median.
  • For a blended rate using a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio, the cost is $0.07 per 1M tokens.
arcprize.org2026-08-07HN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 796 pts · 476 comments5,340 words
github.com2026-08-04authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 382 pts · 109 comments2,531 words
simonwillison.net2026-05-01authorityHN front pageabout the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 677 pts · 398 comments
blog.n.ichol.ai2026-08-09about the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 30 pts · 24 comments
antigma.ai2026-08-09about the DeepSeek V4 familyHN 37 pts · 6 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (27) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flashcactuscompute.com2026-09-182026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-v4-flash-0731-spark-sparkinfer: DeepSeek V4 Flash on one DGX Sparkgithub.com2026-09-102026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-expapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-212026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly releasedapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-122026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813openrouter.ai2026-08-122026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publishapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-08-122026-10-07hn
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent spaceblog.n.ichol.ai2026-08-092026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with a public harnessantigma.ai2026-08-092026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731arcprize.org2026-08-072026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300Xgithub.com2026-08-042026-10-07hn
Having fun with oh my pi, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and Antigravity CLIflashblaze.xyz2026-08-022026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysisartificialanalysis.ai2026-07-312026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Updateapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-07-312026-10-07hn
AMD Lucebox Beats Nvidia DGX Spark by 3.63x on DeepSeek V4 Flashlucebox.com2026-07-302026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Changekucoin.com2026-06-292026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Flash optimized framework and model variants for DGX Sparkgithub.com2026-06-222026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 5% the cost of Claude – what it takes to close the gaphowardchen.substack.com2026-06-162026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precisionruntimewire.com2026-06-082026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (official FP8) running across 2x DGX Sparkforums.developer.nvidia.com2026-06-022026-10-07hn
Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300Xfergusfinn.com2026-06-022026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting againseangoedecke.com2026-05-162026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Fearedhelloai.com2026-05-152026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 Mayapi-docs.deepseek.com official2026-05-062026-10-07hn
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Progithub.com2026-05-032026-10-07hn
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontiersimonwillison.net2026-05-012026-10-07hn
DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Mileslmsys.org2026-04-252026-10-07hn
DeepSeek v4api-docs.deepseek.com official2026-04-242026-10-07hn

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:39 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:09 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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