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Run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B on Lium

DeepSeek · Text generation · 7.6B parameters · 15.2 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-01-20
It needs about 19 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.16 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell24 GBfrom $0.27 / hourRent
L40S48 GBfrom $0.38 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B:
vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B need?

About 15.2 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 19 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-7B?

RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.16 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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