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Run Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking 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 RTX A6000 (48 GB), from $0.40 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

2x RTX 309048 GBfrom $0.46 / hourRent
H100 80GB HBM380 GBfrom $3.20 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking:
vllm serve moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking 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-Thinking?

RTX A6000 (48 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.40 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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