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Percent Active Parameters per Token

# Model Active % Active params Total params Type Date Attention
1 DeepSeek V4-Pro 3.1% 49B active 1.6T MoE 2026-04-24 CSA/HCA
2 Kimi K2 3.2% 32B active 1T MoE 2025-07-10 MLA
3 Kimi K2.5 3.2% 32B active 1T MoE 2026-01-27 MLA
4 Kimi K2.6 3.2% 32B active 1T MoE 2026-04-20 MLA
5 Kimi K2.7 Code 3.2% 32B active 1T MoE 2026-06-12 MLA
6 Arcee AI Trinity Large 400B 3.3% 13B active 400B MoE 2026-01-27 3:1 sliding-window/global gated GQA
7 Kimi K3 3.7% 104B active 2.8T Hybrid MoE 2026-07-27 3:1 Kimi Delta Attention and gated MLA
8 Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B 3.8% 3B active 80B Hybrid 2025-09-09 3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention
9 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro 1.02T 4.1% 42B active 1.02T MoE 2026-04-22 GQA with 6:1 sliding-window/global attention
10 Motif 3 Beta 4.1% 13B active 314B MoE 2026-07-21 GDLA with 3:1 sliding-window/full attention
11 Ling 3.0 Flash 4.1% 5.1B active 124B Hybrid 2026-08-04 5:1 Kimi Delta Attention and gated MLA
12 Inkling 4.2% 41B active 975B MoE 2026-07-15 5:1 sliding-window/global GQA
13 Llama 4 Maverick 4.3% 17B active 400B MoE 2025-04-05 GQA
14 MiniMax M2 230B 4.3% 10B active 230B MoE 2025-10-23 GQA
15 MiniMax M2.5 230B 4.3% 10B active 230B MoE 2026-02-12 GQA
16 Qwen3.5 397B 4.3% 17B active 397B Hybrid 2026-02-16 3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention
17 MiniMax M2.7 230B 4.3% 10B active 230B MoE 2026-03-18 GQA
18 GPT-OSS 120B 4.4% 5.1B active 117B MoE 2025-08-04 Alternating sliding-window/global GQA
19 LongCat-Flash-Lite 68.5B-A3B 4.4% 3B active 68.5B MoE 2026-01-28 MLA
20 DeepSeek V4-Flash 4.6% 13B active 284B MoE 2026-04-24 CSA/HCA
21 Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 310B 4.8% 15B active 310B MoE 2026-04-22 5:1 sliding-window/global attention
22 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B-A6B 4.8% 6B active 125B core Hybrid 2026-08-26 3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Qwen Sparse Attention
23 Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash 309B 4.9% 15B active 309B MoE 2025-12-16 5:1 sliding-window/global attention
24 GLM-5 744B 5.4% 40B active 744B MoE 2026-02-11 MLA with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
25 GLM-5.1 5.4% 40B active 744B MoE 2026-04-07 MLA with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
26 GLM-5.2 5.4% 40B active 744B MoE 2026-06-17 MLA with DeepSeek Sparse Attention and IndexShare
27 MiniMax M3 428B 5.4% 23B active 428B MoE 2026-06-13 GQA with MiniMax Sparse Attention
28 DeepSeek V3 5.5% 37B active 671B MoE 2024-12-26 MLA
29 DeepSeek R1 5.5% 37B active 671B MoE 2025-01-20 MLA
30 DeepSeek V3.2 5.5% 37B active 671B MoE 2025-12-01 MLA with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
31 Step 3.5 Flash 196B 5.6% 11B active 196B MoE 2026-02-01 3:1 sliding-window GQA
32 Mistral Small 4 5.6% 6.63B active 119B MoE 2026-03-16 MLA
33 GLM-5.3-Flash 5.6% 18B active 320B Hybrid 2026-08-26 3:1 Kimi Delta Attention and MLA/DSA
34 Solar Open 2 6% 15B active 250B Hybrid 2026-07-22 3:1 Kimi Delta Attention and gated GQA
35 Mistral Large 3 6.1% 41B active 673B MoE 2025-12-02 MLA
36 Kimi Linear 48B-A3B 6.3% 3B active 48B Hybrid 2025-10-30 3:1 Kimi Delta Attention and MLA
37 Ling 2.5 1T 6.3% 63B active 1T Hybrid 2026-02-15 Lightning Attention plus MLA
38 Ling 2.6 1T 6.3% 63B active 1T Hybrid 2026-04-23 Lightning Attention plus MLA
39 Tencent Hy4-preview 770B-A49B 6.4% 49B active 770B MoE 2026-08-28 Gated MLA with DeepSeek Sparse Attention and IndexCache
40 Laguna S 2.1 6.8% 8B active 118B MoE 2026-07-21 3:1 sliding-window/global gated GQA
41 Tencent Hy3-preview 295B-A21B 7.1% 21B active 295B MoE 2026-04-23 GQA
42 Sarvam 30B 8% 2.4B active 30B MoE 2026-03-03 GQA
43 Qwen3.6 35B-A3B 8.6% 3B active 35B Hybrid 2026-04-15 3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention
44 Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B 8.6% 3B active 35B Hybrid 2026-08-23 3:1 Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention
45 GLM-4.5 355B 9% 32B active 355B MoE 2025-07-28 GQA
46 GLM-4.7 355B 9% 32B active 355B MoE 2025-12-22 GQA
47 ZAYA1-8B 9% 760M active 8.4B MoE 2026-05-06 CCA with 4:1 GQA
48 Laguna XS.2 9.1% 3B active 33B MoE 2026-04-28 3:1 sliding-window/global gated GQA
49 Laguna XS 2.1 9.1% 3B active 33B MoE 2026-07-02 3:1 sliding-window/global gated GQA
50 Qwen3 235B-A22B 9.4% 22B active 235B MoE 2025-04-28 GQA
51 Sarvam 105B 9.8% 10.3B active 105B MoE 2026-03-03 MLA
52 Qwen3 30B-A3B 10% 3B active 30B MoE 2025-04-28 GQA
53 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B 10% 3B active 30B Hybrid MoE 2025-12-04 Mamba-2 + GQA
54 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 10% 3B active 30B Hybrid MoE 2026-08-11 Mamba-2 + GQA
55 Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B 10% 12B active 120B Hybrid MoE 2026-03-11 Mamba-2 + GQA
56 Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B 10% 55B active 550B Hybrid MoE 2026-06-04 Mamba-2 + GQA
57 North Mini Code 30B-A3B 10% 3B active 30B MoE 2026-06-05 8:1 GQA with 3:1 sliding-window/global attention
58 Soofi S 30B-A3B 10.1% 3.2B active 31.6B Hybrid MoE 2026-07-10 Mamba-2 + GQA
59 Qwen3 Coder Flash 30B-A3B 11% 3.3B active 30B MoE 2025-07-31 GQA
60 GLM-4.5-Air 11.3% 12B active 106B MoE 2025-07-28 GQA
61 INTELLECT-3 11.3% 12B active 106B MoE 2025-11-26 GQA
62 Command A+ 218B-A25B 11.5% 25B active 218B MoE 2026-05-20 16:1 GQA with 3:1 sliding-window/global attention
63 Gemma 4 26B-A4B 15.1% 3.8B active 25.2B MoE 2026-04-02 5:1 sliding-window/global GQA
64 GPT-OSS 20B 17.1% 3.6B active 21B MoE 2025-08-04 Alternating sliding-window/global GQA
65 LFM2.5 8B-A1B 18.1% 1.5B active 8.3B Hybrid MoE 2026-05-28 LIV convolution blocks plus GQA and MoE
66 JetBrains Mellum2 Thinking 12B-A2.5B 20.8% 2.5B active 12B MoE 2026-06-01 3:1 sliding-window/full GQA

Caveat: active parameter share is only one lens. It does not capture KV cache size, attention pattern, context length, routing overhead, hardware efficiency, or training quality. But it is a helpful quick check when comparing sparse models. For Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the 4.8% ratio uses the 125B core and excludes the additional 51B n-gram embedding and 4B MTP parameters. For Tencent Hy4-preview, the 6.4% ratio uses the 770B backbone and excludes the additional 10B MTP layer.