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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
Context1M nativeText
LicenseDeepSeek Model LicenseMultilingual
01 / BEST FOR
  • long-context agents
  • coding
  • reasoning
02 / ESTIMATED FIT
Mac Studio M3 Ultra · 256 GBTight
03 / DEPLOY WITH
vLLMAdvancedvllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash --dtype auto
llama.cppMediumllama-server -m /path/to/verified-model.gguf --port 8080
LM StudioEasySearch “deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash” → Load a Q4/INT4 build → Start Server
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.