Alternatives to DeepSeek-V3.1

DeepSeek-V3.1 alternatives

DeepSeek-V3.1's smallest published quantization is 137.32 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructMoE30.5B7.46 GiB46apache-2.0
Qwen3.6-27B27.8B8.74 GiB40apache-2.0
Qwen3.8-27B27.8B8.39 GiB22apache-2.0
DeepSeek-V4-FlashMoE291B76.87 GiB12mit
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized12.0B6.50 GiB2apache-2.0
gemma-4-E4B-it8.0B3.30 GiB36apache-2.0
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoE30.5B7.05 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen3-4B4.0B1.01 GiB29—

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
GLM-5.2MoE753B169.33 GiB20mit

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructMoE30.5B7.46 GiB46apache-2.0
Qwen3.6-27B27.8B8.74 GiB40apache-2.0
Qwen3.8-27B27.8B8.39 GiB22apache-2.0
DeepSeek-V4-FlashMoE291B76.87 GiB12mit
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized12.0B6.50 GiB2apache-2.0
gemma-4-E4B-it8.0B3.30 GiB36apache-2.0
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoE30.5B7.05 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen3-8B8.2B2.12 GiB51apache-2.0
DeepSeek-V3.1 alternatives — smaller, similar, or more permissively licensed — ossmodeldb