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Run Qianfan-VL-8B on Lium

Baidu · Vision and text · 8.8B parameters · 17.6 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-09-16
It needs about 22 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.19 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell24 GBfrom $0.40 / hourRent
2x Tesla V10032 GBfrom $0.42 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve baidu/Qianfan-VL-8B:
vllm serve baidu/Qianfan-VL-8B
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Qianfan-VL-8B need?

About 17.6 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 22 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 Qianfan-VL-8B?

RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.19 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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