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Run Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct on Lium
Moonshot AI · Vision and text · 16.4B parameters · 32.8 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-04-09
It needs about 40 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 2x RTX 3090 (48 GB), from $0.40 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-VL-A3B-Instruct:
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 2Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct need?
About 32.8 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 40 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-VL-A3B-Instruct?
2x RTX 3090 (48 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.40 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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