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Run DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B on Lium

DeepSeek · Text generation · 8.2B parameters · 16.4 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-05-29
It needs about 20 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX A4500 (20 GB), from $0.18 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

RTX 309024 GBfrom $0.20 / hourRent
H100 PCIe80 GBfrom $1.90 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B:
vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B need?

About 16.4 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 20 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 DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B?

RTX A4500 (20 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.18 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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