DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads llmrun Score 134.4 to 103.9; neither fits 24 GB.
Run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 in the cloud →
Model A · DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017763.2B · 16B active · 1M context · MIT · Oct 2026
Model B · Alibaba
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct480.2B · 35.5B active · 256K context · Apache 2.0 · Jul 2025
Choose DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 if you want…
Higher llmrun Score
134.4 vs 103.9
Stronger at coding
135.1 vs 100.6
Stronger at agents
135.7 vs 104.9
Longer context window
1M vs 256K tokens
Also does vision
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct doesn't list it
Newer release
Oct 2026 vs Jul 2025
Choose Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct if you want…
Lighter on memory
288.7 vs 458.3 GB at Q4_K_M
Also does chat, code, function-calling
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 doesn't list it
On your hardware
Each model at its default quant (Q4_K_M), a smaller one when it must. Estimates, ±20%.
8 GB
RTX 4060 · 8 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
12 GB
RTX 3060 12GB · 12 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
16 GB
RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · 16 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
24 GBreference
RTX 4090 · 24 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
32 GB
RTX 5090 · 32 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
48 GB
RTX A6000 · 48 GB tier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
Mac 32 GB
Mac Mini M4 · Macs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
Mac 64 GB
Mac Studio M4 Max · Macs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
Mac 128 GB
Mac Studio M4 Max · Macs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 210.4 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 146.4 GB
Reference GPU: RTX 4090. Tinted cell = the better pick on that machine (fits, more headroom, or at least 10% faster).
Overall
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Coding
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Agents
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Math
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
no data
Science
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
no data
Reasoning
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
no data
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · #2 of 106 open models · #1 of 102 that fit ≤512 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct · #47 of 106 open models · #43 of 102 that fit ≤512 GB
Benchmarks
1 shared board: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads 1, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct leads 0 · Benchmarks imported Nov 2026
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
1622.0#2/48 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Oct 2026
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
461.4#38/48 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Jul 2025
28 more boards (other shared and single-model boards)
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
1665.0#1/55 open
ArenaLMArena · Oct 2026
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
1274.8#48/55 open
ArenaLMArena · Oct 2026
Only DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (21)
- GPQA Diamond93.2%
- AIME 2024/202599.4%
- FrontierMath71.2%
- ARC-AGI-278.1%
- SciCode55.9%
- ARC-AGI94.5%
- SimpleQA42.5%
- FrontierMath Tier 446.3%
- APEX-Agents69.8%
- Chess Puzzles46.0%
- CritPt24.0%
- LiveBench 2026 Reasoning89.1
- Mystery Game Puzzles49.0%
- LiveBench 2026 Browser76.0
- LiveBench 2026 Data Analysis79.5
- CursorBench47.7%
- LiveBench 2026 Coding96.0
- LiveBench 2026 Long-Horizon50.9
- LiveBench 2026 Design83.4
- WeirdML v39.2%
- LiveBench 2026 Research79.5
Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct (6)
- SWE-bench Verified69.6%
- LMArena Text1387.6
- Terminal-Bench27.2%
- SWE-bench Bash Only55.4%
- WeirdML41.2%
- GSO-Bench4.9%
VRAM by quantization
Memory to load the model and 2K context; below it, the total at 32K and 128K context. Lighter side in bold.
Q2_K
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
325 GB264.5 GB file
32K 325 GB · 128K 326 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
205 GB174.7 GB file
32K 209 GB · 128K 221 GB
Q3_K_S
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
211 GB206.9 GB file
32K 215 GB · 128K 227 GB
Q3_K_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
372 GB347.3 GB file
32K 373 GB · 128K 374 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
235 GB229.2 GB file
32K 239 GB · 128K 251 GB
Q4_0
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
241 GB271.6 GB file
32K 245 GB · 128K 257 GB
Q4_K_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
458 GB444.7 GB file
32K 459 GB · 128K 460 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
289 GB290.1 GB file
32K 293 GB · 128K 305 GB
Q5_K_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
544 GB~543.8 GB file
32K 545 GB · 128K 546 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
343 GB340.5 GB file
32K 347 GB · 128K 359 GB
Q6_K
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
630 GB~629.6 GB file
32K 630 GB · 128K 632 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
397 GB394.1 GB file
32K 401 GB · 128K 413 GB
Q8_0
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
764 GB~763.2 GB file
32K 764 GB · 128K 765 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
481 GB510.4 GB file
32K 485 GB · 128K 497 GB
14 more quants
IQ2_XXS
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
210 GB300.5 GB file
32K 211 GB · 128K 212 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
not listed
IQ2_XS
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
229 GB~229.0 GB file
32K 230 GB · 128K 231 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
145 GB132.9 GB file
32K 149 GB · 128K 161 GB
IQ2_S
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
151 GB133.6 GB file
32K 155 GB · 128K 167 GB
IQ3_XXS
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
296 GB394.7 GB file
32K 296 GB · 128K 298 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
187 GB201.5 GB file
32K 191 GB · 128K 203 GB
IQ3_XS
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
199 GB197.1 GB file
32K 203 GB · 128K 215 GB
IQ3_S
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
325 GB423.6 GB file
32K 325 GB · 128K 326 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
not listed
IQ3_M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
217 GB218.4 GB file
32K 221 GB · 128K 233 GB
Q3_K_L
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
247 GB226.7 GB file
32K 251 GB · 128K 263 GB
IQ4_XS
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
259 GB260.5 GB file
32K 263 GB · 128K 275 GB
IQ4_NL
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
271 GB270.6 GB file
32K 275 GB · 128K 287 GB
Q4_1
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
271 GB300.5 GB file
32K 275 GB · 128K 287 GB
Q4_K_S
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
271 GB272.8 GB file
32K 275 GB · 128K 287 GB
Q5_K_S
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
not listed
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
331 GB330.4 GB file
32K 335 GB · 128K 347 GB
BF16
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
1527 GB~1526.4 GB file
32K 1527 GB · 128K 1528 GB
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
961 GB960.4 GB file
32K 965 GB · 128K 977 GB
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Ollama · Q4_K_M
ollama run hf.co/mrfakename/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GGUF:Q4_K_MQwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Ollama · Q4_K_M
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M| Spec | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | DeepSeek | Alibaba |
| Parameters | 763.2B | 480.2B |
| Active parameters | 16B per token | 35B per token |
| Architecture | DeepseekV41ForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context | 1M tokens | 256K tokens |
| Modalities | Vision | Chat, Code, Function-calling |
| License | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Jul 2025 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which is better, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads llmrun Score 134.4 to 103.9; neither fits 24 GB. Choose DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 for higher llmrun Score and stronger at coding; choose Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct for lighter on memory and also does chat, code, function-calling.
Which needs less VRAM, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct?
At Q4_K_M, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 requires 458.3 GB while Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct needs 288.7 GB, making Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct the easier model to run on your local setup.
Can I run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct on a 16 GB GPU?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 does not fit (smallest quant needs 210.4 GB); Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct does not fit (smallest quant needs 146.4 GB).
Which has a longer context window, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 supports 1,048,576 tokens and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct supports 262,144 tokens.