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DeepSeek-R1-0528

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is an open-weight language model from DeepSeek, released on May 28, 2025.

Developer
DeepSeek
Released
May 28, 2025
Total parameters
671B
Active parameters per token
37B
Architecture
MoE
Context window
128K
Input
Text
License
MIT
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
1,369.1 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
Checked on

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a mixture-of-experts model with 671B total parameters, of which 37B are active for each token. DeepSeek lists a context window of 128K tokens. The model takes text input. The weights are released under the MIT license, which allows commercial use. The official weights on Hugging Face take about 1,369 GB. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
671B
Active parameters, billions
37B
Context window, tokens
128K
License type
MIT
License conditions
MIT: keep the copyright and permission notice.
Weights precision
FP8 + BF16
License text
huggingface.co
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
Hugging Face model pagehttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek API docs: release noteshttps://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250528

Questions

What license does DeepSeek-R1-0528 use?
The weights are released under the MIT license, which allows commercial use.
Can I use DeepSeek-R1-0528 commercially?
Yes. The MIT license only asks you to keep the copyright and permission notice.
How much memory does DeepSeek-R1-0528 need?
The official DeepSeek-R1-0528 weights take about 1,369 GB (FP8 + BF16). Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less. The memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does DeepSeek-R1-0528 have?
DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a mixture-of-experts model with 671B total parameters, of which 37B are active for each token. DeepSeek lists a context window of 128K tokens.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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