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Run Moonlight-16B-A3B on Lium
Moonshot AI · Text generation · 16B parameters · 31.9 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-02-22
It needs about 39 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 2x RTX 3090 (48 GB), from $0.38 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/Moonlight-16B-A3B:
vllm serve moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B --tensor-parallel-size 2Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Moonlight-16B-A3B need?
About 31.9 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 39 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 Moonlight-16B-A3B?
2x RTX 3090 (48 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.38 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt