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Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B on Lium

DeepSeek · Text generation · 32.8B parameters · 65.5 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-01-20
It needs about 79 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 2x L40 (96 GB), from $0.66 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

4x RTX 309096 GBfrom $0.80 / hourRent
2x RTX A600096 GBfrom $0.84 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B:
vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B --tensor-parallel-size 2
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B need?

About 65.5 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 79 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-Distill-Qwen-32B?

2x L40 (96 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.66 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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