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Run Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct on Lium
Moonshot AI · Text generation · 49.1B parameters · 98.2 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-10-30
It needs about 118 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 4x L40 (192 GB), from $1.32 per hour, billed per second.
Other GPUs that run it
How to run it
Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct:
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 4Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct need?
About 98.2 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 118 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-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct?
4x L40 (192 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $1.32 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt