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Run Kimi-K3 on Lium
Moonshot AI · Vision and text · 2.8T parameters · 1560.9 GB 4-bit weights · released 2026-06-13
It needs about 1874 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 8x B300 SXM6 (2304 GB), reference $64.00 per hour, billed per second.
How to run it
Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve moonshotai/Kimi-K3:
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tensor-parallel-size 8Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Kimi-K3 need?
About 1560.9 GB for the released 4-bit weights, so plan on 1874 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 Kimi-K3?
8x B300 SXM6 (2304 GB). On Lium that setup costs reference $64.00 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt