MODEL / DEEPSEEK

DeepSeek V4 Flash

The 176 GB memory figure is an estimate for the mixed-precision checkpoint. Thirteen billion active parameters do not mean 13 GB of storage.

Primary source

Total parameters284B13B active / token

Estimated memory~176 GBOfficial FP4 + FP8 mixed

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LicenseMITMultilingual

01 / BEST FOR

long-context agents
coding
reasoning

02 / ESTIMATED FIT

Mac Studio M3 Ultra · 256 GBTight fit

03 / DEPLOY WITH

These are runtime examples, not validated installation recipes. Fit estimates assume quantized files; official repositories may hold full-precision weights. MLX, GGUF and TensorRT require matching conversions or engines.

vLLMAdvancedvllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash --dtype auto

llama.cppMediumllama-server -m /path/to/verified-model.gguf --port 9931

LM StudioEasySearch “deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash” → Load a Q4/INT4 build → Start Server

SGLangAdvancedpython3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash --port 30000

Watch out

The 176 GB memory figure is an estimate for the mixed-precision checkpoint. Thirteen billion active parameters do not mean 13 GB of storage.