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Run Qwen3.5-0.8B on Lium

Alibaba Qwen · Vision and text · 0.9B parameters · 1.7 GB BF16 weights · released 2026-02-28
It needs about 3 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB), from $0.17 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

T416 GBfrom $0.22 / hourRent
RTX A600048 GBfrom $0.42 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B:
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Qwen3.5-0.8B need?

About 1.7 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 3 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.

What GPU should I rent to run Qwen3.5-0.8B?

RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.17 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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