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deepseek-v4.1-flash-max vs Kimi K2.6

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max and Kimi K2.6 are about even on Arena (1463 vs 1455): in a blind vote each wins about half the time.

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max1463Arena chat · #38 of 416
Kimi K2.61455Arena chat · #44 of 416

Arena scores by category

Categorydeepseek-v4.1-flash-maxKimi K2.6Ahead
Chat14631455about even
Vision12771283about even

Scores from blind human votes on Arena. A gap under 10 points is too small to call.

Size and where to use them free

deepseek-v4.1-flash-maxKimi K2.6
Made bydeepseekmoonshot
Size763.2 B (228.1 B active)1026.9 B (33.3 B active)
4-bit download464 GB624 GB
Use it freedownload and run at home · MIT licensedownload and run at home · Modified MIT license

Speed at home

Hardwaredeepseek-v4.1-flash-maxKimi K2.6
RTX 3090does not fitdoes not fit
RTX 4090does not fitdoes not fit
RTX 5090does not fitdoes not fit
RX 7900 XTXdoes not fitdoes not fit
Mac M4 Max 128 GBdoes not fitdoes not fit
Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128 GBdoes not fitdoes not fit

Estimates at 4-bit with an 8K context, 64 GB of system RAM for offload, calibrated on 44 real llama.cpp tests.

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